Sussita - Cathedral

Church/Monastery name: 
Sussita - Cathedral
Inscription number: 
7
Selected bibliography: 
267, no. 17, fig. 333 (ph.) (ed. pr.)
Abbreviation for Journals and Series
Epigraphical corpora: 

SEG 64 (2014): 1718

Inscription type: 
grafitto
Location: 

Findspt: Engraved on a collapsed column. Found during the salvage excavations of the early 1950s.

Pres. location: In situ. (Łajtar)

Physical description : 

Graffito on a column that fell down and broke into several parts during the earthquake of 749 AD. The text runs along the column shaft, from top to bottom, which shows that the inscription was executed when the column was still standing. Crude writing. Square omega. (Łajtar)

Text: 

☩ ΧΧΧΡΩ...ΤΟΥΒΙΩΝ[...]

Translation: 

Illegible, no translation.

Apparatus: 

Perhaps τοῦ Βίων[ος], but the text might be complete at right - Łajtar.

Date: 
7th/8th cent.
Summary: 

Christian graffito on collapsed column.

Contents
Personal names: 
Bion