Church/Monastery name:
Shiloh - The Basilica Church
Inscription number:
1
Selected bibliography:
26-27 (ph.) (ed. pr.) | |
53, fig. 15 (dr.) | |
169-170, fig. 6 (ph., dr.) | |
53 | |
226-227 | |
126, no. 182 |
Epigraphical corpora:
SEG 8 (1937): 149; 47 (1997): 2055; 62 (2012): 1635
Inscription type:
invocation/prayer
Location:
in the narthex, at the threshold to the nave, in front of a row of flagstones.
Physical description :
Two-line mosaic inscription, 175 cm long, letters 7-8 cm high. The inscription begins and ends with a cross.
Text:
☩ Κ(ύρι)ε, μνήσθητι τοῦ δούλου Ζαχαρία
καὶ τοῦ γράψαντος ⟨ε⟩ἰς ἀγαθά. ☩
Translation:
Lord, remember your servant Zachariah and the writer for good. (Andersen)
Summary:
Invocation of the Lord on behalf of Zachariah, in the mosaic pavement of the narthex.
Epigraphical Abbreviations:
horizontal stroke over nomen sacrum
"...εἰς ἀγαθά is reminiscent of the stereotyped Aramaic phrase dekir leṭab, the regular dedicatory formula of the contemporary Palestinian synagogues" (Starr).