59-60, pl. XXXVII.a (ph.) (ed. pr.) | |
128-129, no. 216 | |
65, no. 7 | |
261-262, no. 52, figs. 60 A-B (ph., dr.) | |
184-185, no. 270 |
SEG 37 (1987): 1509 B
In the exonarthex.
The outer narthex was longer than the width of the nave and aisles (16 m). The inscription was framed in a medallion (ø 120 cm), set in its presumed centre, south of the church axis. The nine-line text is fragmentary. The characters are round, 12 cm high in the first five lines, 9 in the lower part of the inscription. The text is sealed with a cross, and perhaps another cross marked the beginning.
[☩ Ἐπὶ τοῦ]
ὡσ(ιοτάτου) ἐπισκόπ(ου) ἡμῶν
Φωτίν[ου καὶ τοῦ θεοφ(ιλεστάτου)] καὶ
4 εὐλ(αβεστάτου) Κωσ[μᾶ ? τοῦ]
περιοδε[υτοῦ ἐτελειώθ]η
τὸ ἔργον τ[οῦτο τῆς ψ]η-
φώσεως ἰνδ(ικτιῶνος) θʹ
8 τοῦ αιχʹ ἔτο-
υς. ☩
[In the days of] our most saintly bishop Photinus and of [the most God-loving] and pious Cos[mas ?] the visitor [was completed] the work of this mosaic, in the 9th indiction of the year 611.
L.1 [Ἐπὶ τοῦ - - ] all eds.; l.3 Φωτίν[ου gap] καὶ all eds.; l.5 περιοδε[υτοῦ - - ἐτελειώθ]η all eds., but there seems to be neither space nor need for an additional word.
Damaged mosaic building inscription set in a medallion, in the exonarthex.
The date is reckoned according to the era of Tyre, 126 BC: the year 611 of this era, AD 485/6, roughly corresponded to the 9th indiction.