Church/Monastery name:
Shiloh - Northern Church (Late)
Inscription number:
3
Selected bibliography:
203-204, fig. 63 (ph., dr.) | |
221, no. 3 (dr.) (ed. pr.) |
Epigraphical corpora:
SEG 62 (2012): 1693
Inscription type:
dedicatory
invocation/prayer
Location:
Incised on a bronze cross found in the debris.
On a moveable object:
metal object
Physical description :
A bronze cross, 16.5×15 cm and 2-4 mm thick, with holes at the ends of its four arms, through which it could be nailed on a plaque. An inscription, beginning and ending with crosses, is incised on the stem and continues first on the left arm, and then on the right. The letters are 8-9 mm high.
Text:
☩ Ἁγία Μαρί(α), ἀνάπαυσον Ἀνιανόν. ☩
Translation:
Saint Mary, give rest to Anianos.
Summary:
Invocation of Mary on a bronze cross found in the debris.
Either the cross, or the whole object on which it was fixed, was clearly an offering to the Virgin for the rest of a man who bore the Semitic name Anianos.