Church/Monastery name:
Deir el-Muqalik - THEOCTISTUS
Inscription number:
21
Selected bibliography:
274-275, 81*, no. 3, fig. 4 (dr.) (ed. pr.) (in Hebrew) |
Epigraphical corpora:
SEG 37 (1987): 1504
CIIP IV.1 (2018): 3174 (dr.)
Inscription type:
grafitto
invocation/prayer
Location:
On a natural rock wall at the eastern end of the mosaic pavement, below and to the left of Inscription no. 20.
Physical description :
The script is formal lapidary more strict than that of inscription no. 2. Letters are ca. 4 cm high. The inscription was very carefully made with a sharp chisel, and attention was given in keeping all letters in line and of the same hight. The inscription is engraved over an already exisitng cross, 14 cm high.
Text:
☩ Κ(ύρι)ε, φύλαξον τὴν δούλην σου
Ἀξιλνα.
Translation:
O Lord, protect thy handmaid Axilna (Axil[i]na?).
Summary:
Invocation of the Lord on behalf of Axilna – grafitto on a rock wall in the cistern near the monastery.
Epigraphical Abbreviations:
horizontal stroke over nomen sacrum
For a discussion of the possible interpretations of the name, see Di Segni and Patrich.