Bethlehem - The Nativity: Justinian church

Church/Monastery name:

Inscription number:

Selected bibliography:

de Vogüé, M. , 1860	96, pl. V.3 (dr.)
Guérin, V., 1868	133-134 (ed. pr.)

Abbreviation for Journals and Series

Epigraphical corpora:

CIIP IV.1 (2018): 3218 (phs.)

Inscription type:

commemorative

Location:

Inscribed on a marble baptismal font in the southern aisle. In situ.

Physical description :

Baptismal font. An octagonal block of red marble with a quatrefoil basin which lies in it. On one of the sides is the inscription in a tabula ansata above a large cross.

Meas.: h (of baptistery) 95, w (of baptistery) 175, w (of each of the eight sides) 68, h (tabula) 24, w (tabula) 48 cm.

Text:

☩ Ὑπὲρ μνήμης καὶ ἀ-

ναπαύσεως καὶ ἀφέ-

σεως ἁμαρτίων, ὧν ὁ

Κ(ύριο)ς γηνόσκι τὰ ὀν[όματα].

Translation:

For the memory and the rest and the remission of sins of those whose names the Lord knows. (CIIP)

Summary:

Four-line anonymous commemorative inscription inscribed on a marble baptismal font in the southern aisle.

Contents

Epigraphical formulae:

remembrance (mnêmê)

of sins (aphesis amartiôn)

repose (anapausis, koimêsis)

whose names the Lord knows/thou knowest

Epigraphical Abbreviations:

horizontal stroke over nomen sacrum