Church/Monastery name:
Sussita - Cathedral
Inscription number:
4
Selected bibliography:
24 | |
33, pl. VI.a (ph.) (ed. pr.) | |
71, fig. 47 | |
136, no. 231, pl. CLXX.1 (ph.) | |
93, no. 3, fig. 5 (ph.) | |
24-25, no. 20 | |
272-273, no. 57, fig. 65 | |
62, fig. 30 | |
266-267, no. 16 | |
151, no. 221 |
Epigraphical corpora:
SEG 16 (1959): 826; 46 (1996): 1938; 64 (2014): 1710
Inscription type:
dedicatory
invocation/prayer
Location:
Findspt: In the mosaic floor in front of the southern apse of the baptistery. Found during salvage excavations of the early 1950s.
Pres. location: In situ. (Łajtar)
Physical description :
Mosaic inscription within a tabula ansata. Square epigraphic majuscules.
Meas.: h 40, w 140 cm; letters 8 cm.
Text:
☩ Πρωσφωρὰ ὁ̃ν Κύριος γινόσ-
κη τὰ ὀνόματα Ἅγιε Κωσμᾶ
(καὶ) Δαμηανὲ πρ(όσ)δεξε. Ἀμήν, Κ(ύρι)ε.
Translation:
Offering of those whose names the Lord knows. Saint(s) Cosmas and Damianus, accept (it). Amen.
Date:
591
Summary:
Anonymous dedicatory mosaic inscription within a tabula ansata, in front of the southern apse of the baptistery.
Epigraphical Abbreviations:
stigma for καί, small diagonal stroke for πρ(όσ)δεξε, horizontal stroke over nomen sacrum, ΗΝ in ligatures