Church/Monastery name:
Ḥorvat Kenes - Northern Church
Inscription number:
1
Selected bibliography:
170, fig. 10 (ph.) |
Epigraphical corpora:
SEG 64 (2014): 1778 (ed. pr.)
Inscription type:
commemorative
Location:
In the mosaic pavement in the intercolumnium of the southern aisle.
Physical description :
Mosaic inscription within tabula ansata on white ground.
Text:
Μνηθοῦσιν οἱ δώ-
σαντες Ζωσυς διά-
κ(ων), Κλημάτις Σενέκα
✲ ἀρχιδιάκων. ✲
Translation:
May those who have offered be remembered: Zosys (the) deacon, Clematius, Seneca (the) archdeacon.
Apparatus:
Ll. 2-3 διάκ(ων) or διάκ(ονος). Both forms are correct: the former and less common is preferable because it is the one chosen in ἀρχιδιάκων.
Date:
5th/6th cent.
Summary:
Commemorative mosaic inscription of Zosys, Clematius and Seneca within tabula ansata, in the intercolumnium of the southern aisle.
Epigraphical Abbreviations:
small diagonal stroke over kappa