Church/Monastery name:
Mizpe Shivta; el Mishrefa - ST. GEORGE (?)
Inscription number:
3
Selected bibliography:
516, no. 3, fig. 11 (ph.) (ed. pr.) |
Epigraphical corpora:
SEG 57 (2007): 1855
Inscription type:
grafitto
Location:
In one of the rock-cut rooms, on the plaster covering an arch at the entrance, above Inscription no. 2. This room has not been excavated, so that the inscriptions are seen today near the floor. (Figueras)
Physical description :
One word incised in big Greek characters into the plaster covering the arch.
Text:
⟨Ζ⟩ήνων
Translation:
Zenon.
Summary:
Grafitto of Zenon, incised on the plaster in one of the rock-cut rooms.
The first letter of this personal name appears actually like a meaningless group of intercrossed lines, but these could have been incised when the letter Z already existed there (Figueras).