Church/Monastery name:
Sussita - Northwest Church (NWC)
Inscription number:
2
Selected bibliography:
61-62, no. 2, fig. 31 (ph.) (ed. pr.) | |
44, pl. 4.A (ph.) | |
268-269, no. 19, fig. 335 (ph.) | |
150, no. 220 |
Epigraphical corpora:
SEG 54 (2004): 1662; 64 (2014): 1712
Inscription type:
building
dedicatory
Location:
Findspot: In the mosaic floor in the eastern part of the south aisle. Found during the 2002 excavation.
Pres. location: In situ. (Łajtar 2013)
Physical description :
One-line mosaic inscription in a double rectangular frame (209 x 20 cm). Letters in round majuscules (h. 4-8 cm). The word ἥμισυ is recorded as a siglum in the form of a chevron. The end of the inscription is marked with a dot.
Text:
Ἐκαρποφόρησεν Πέτρος ΚΩΚΑΙ νο(μίσματος) τὸ (ἥμισυ).
Translation:
Petrus of the New Village (?) offered half a solidus.
Date:
late 6th cent.
Summary:
One-line mosaic dedicatory building (?) inscription of Petrus within a double rectangular frame, in the south aisle.
Epigraphical Abbreviations:
overhanging omicron for νο(μίσματος) and τό, chevron for ἥμισυ
For ΚΩΚΑΙ, Łajtar 2002 offers three interpretations: 1) abbreviated word or name specifying Petros (e.g. his patronymic, ethnic or occupation); 2) abbreviated word ΚΩ followed by καί (indicating an object which Petros donated in addition to half a nomisma); 3) Κ(υρί)ῳ καί (‘Petros offered to the Lord as much as half of the nomisma’) [Di Segni (apud SEG 64) rejects these explanations and wonders whether the letters may be the abbreviated name of the church: Κω(ρνηλίῳ) και(ντορίωνι). The cult of the centurion Cornelius, mentioned in Acts 10, was widely spread: it is attested for Caesarea, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, in the Byzantine Empire and in Egypt].
Łajtar 2013 prefers to resolve ΚΩΚΑΙ as κώ(μης) Και(νῆς), an otherwise unattested village probably in the territory of Hippos.