Jabaliyah; el-Mkheitim - Church

Church/Monastery name:

Inscription number:

Selected bibliography:

Saliou, C., 2000	400-401, no. 10, pl. IV.b (ph.) (ed. pr.)
Madden, A. M., 2014	67, no. 81

Abbreviation for Journals and Series

Epigraphical corpora:

SEG 50 (2000): 1488

CIIP III (2014): 2451 (dr.)

Inscription type:

building

commemorative

dedicatory

Location:

In the northern of two medallions in the western mosaic carpet of the central room of the baptistery (Locus 11).

Physical description :

Damaged 11-line mosaic inscription within a medallion, surrounded by several circles of tesserae; the letters in black, standing on black guidelines.

Meas.: letters 5.2-6 cm.

Text:

Παῦλος

ὁ πρεσβύτερος,

Οὐλπιανοῦ υἱός,

4 εὐχαριστ(ῶν) τῷ θ(ε)ῷ κ(αὶ) τ(οῖς)

[ἁγίο]ις ὑπὲρ σωταιρίας

[αὐ]τοῦ καὶ ὑπὲρ ἀνα-

[παύ]σεος Μαρίας ἀδελ-

8 [φῆς α]ὐτοῦ ἀιπαρθ-

[ένου ἐ]ψήφωσεν

[τὸ ἅγ]ιον φώ-

[τι]σμα.

Translation:

Paulus, the priest, son of Ulpianus, giving thanks to god and the saints, adorned the holy (baptismal) font with mosaics on behalf of his salvation and on behalf of the rest of his sister Maria, eternal virgin. (CIIP)

Apparatus:

Ll.6-7: ἀνα|[παύ]σεως Saliou, corr. Tybout apud SEG; l.8: [--α]ὐτοῦς Saliou, corr. Tybout.

Summary:

Dedicatory building inscription of Paulus and Maria within a medallion, in the western mosaic carpet of the central room of the baptistery.

Contents

Actions:

was paved with mosaic

Definitions of building/part of building:

baptismal (font)

Ecclesiastical titles:

presbyter

Monastical titles:

monastria/monachousa/virgin

Personal names:

Paulus, Maria, Ulpianus

Kinship terms:

siblings

son

Epithets of saints:

hagios/hagia

Epigraphical formulae:

repose (anapausis, koimêsis)

salvation/preservation (sôtêria)

thanksgiving (eucharistia)

Epigraphical Abbreviations:

stigmas, horizontal stroke over nomen sacrum, diagonal stroke for κ(αί)