Church/Monastery name:
Deir el-Muqalik - THEOCTISTUS
Inscription number:
22
Selected bibliography:
275, 81*, no. 4, fig. 4 (dr.) (ed. pr.) (in Hebrew) |
Epigraphical corpora:
CIIP IV.1 (2018): 3175 (dr.)
Inscription type:
invocation/prayer
Location:
On a natural rock wall at the eastern end of the mosaic pavement, above and parallel to Inscription no. 20.
Physical description :
The inscription is worn, and therefore the restoration is based on inscriptions 1-2. There is a place for only two letters after the first surviving letter.
Text:
☩
δο]ύ[λῳ or λῃ] σοῦ Ζ[- - -
Translation:
(O Lord, help) thy servant Ζ...
Summary:
Invocation on behalf of Z... – grafitto on a rock wall in the cistern near the monastery.