Ḥorvat Kenes - Church

Church/Monastery name:

Ḥorvat Kenes - Northern Church

Inscription number:

Selected bibliography:

Aviam, M., 1995

54 (ph.) (in Hebrew)

Abbreviation for Journals and Series

Epigraphical corpora:

SEG 45 (1995): 1952 (ed. pr.)

Inscription type:

commemorative

Location:

In the mosaic pavement of the southern aisle.

Physical description :

Mosaic inscription within a square frame.

Text:

Μνη⟨σ⟩θῇ

Αβου-

δε(μος) δι-

άκ(ων).

Translation:

May Abudemos the deacon be remembered.

Commentary:

For the name Abudemos, see Wuthnow, Semitischen Menschennamen, p. 10; Hammath Tiberias (L. Roth-Gerson, Greek Inscriptions from the Synagogues in Eretz Israel, p. 65, no. 16).

Summary:

Commemorative inscription of Abudemos the deacon, in the mosaic pavement of the southern aisle.

Contents

Ecclesiastical titles:

deacon

Personal names:

Abudemos

Epigraphical Abbreviations:

diagonal stroke on kappa