Church/Monastery name:
Sussita - Cathedral
Inscription number:
3
Selected bibliography:
24 | |
71, figs. 42, 46 | |
136, no. 231, pl. CLXX.2 (ph.) | |
92, no. 2, fig. 4 (ph.) | |
75-76, no. 1 | |
24, no. 19 | |
268-270, no. 55, figs. 62-63 | |
62, figs. 25, 29 | |
264-265, no. 14 | |
151, no. 221 |
Epigraphical corpora:
SEG 37 (1987): 1490 (ed. pr.); 41 (1991):1555; 46 (1996): 1938; 64 (2014): 1708
Inscription type:
building
Location:
Findspt: In the mosaic floor of the central nave of the baptistery. Found during salvage excavations of the early 1950s.
Pres. location: In situ. (Łajtar)
Physical description :
Fragmentary mosaic inscription set in a large medallion. Only the lower part of the medallion is preserved.
Text:
[? Ἐτελειώθη τὸ πᾶν ἔργον τοῦ ἁγίου φωτι-]
στηρίου [ἐν μη(νὶ) Ἰαν-]
ουαρίῳ ἰν̣[δ(ικτιῶνος) θʹ]
ἔτ(ους) δνχʹ.
Translation:
[All the work (or: The mosaic) of the holy bapti]stery [was completed in the month of Jan]uary of the in]diction [9] year 654.
Apparatus:
L.1 Łajtar urges that [ἡ ψήφωσις] is also possible in place of [τὸ πᾶν ἔργον].
Given date:
year
month
indiction
Date:
January 591
Summary:
Fragmentary dated mosaic building inscription in the centre of the baptistery, Jan. 591.
Epigraphical Abbreviations:
stigma, horizontal stroke for numerals
Year 654 of the Pompeian era = 591 AD.