Ḥorvat Beer Shem'a; Birsama - St. Stephanos

Church/Monastery name: 
Ḥorvat Beer Shem'a; Birsama - St. Stephanos
Inscription number: 
4
Selected bibliography: 
Tzaferis, V., 1996
78*, no. 4, fig. 6 (ph.) (ed. pr.)
Feissel, D. and Gatier, P.-L., 1997
597-598, no. 659 (Feissel)
Madden, A. M., 2014
44, no. 49
Abbreviation for Journals and Series
Epigraphical corpora: 

AE 1996: 1567

SEG 46 (1996): 2007

Inscription type: 
commemorative
invocation/prayer
Location: 

In the mosaic pavement on the threshold of one of the side rooms in the church complex.

Physical description : 

Damaged four-line (?) mosaic inscription within a tabula ansata. Only the first three lines are preserved.

Text: 

Μνήσθητι, Κ(ύρι)ε, Βίκτωρ

τὸν κελαρίτην

καὶ Στέφανον τὸν

[ἱερέα].

Translation: 

O Lord, remeber Victor, the storekeeper and Stephanos the (priest?). (Tzaferis)

Apparatus: 

L.4  δ̣ι̣ά̣[κονα ?- -]  Bingen apud SEG.

Summary: 

Partial four-line mosaic inscription within a tabula ansata, on the threshold of one of the side rooms.

Contents
Ecclesiastical titles: 
presbyter
Personal names: 
Stephanus, Victor
Professions: 
storekeeper (cellarius)
Epigraphical formulae: 
Lord/Christ, remember...
Epigraphical Abbreviations: 
horizontal stroke over nomen sacrum