Khan el-Ahmar - EUTHYMIUS

Church/Monastery name:

Inscription number:

Selected bibliography:

Meimaris, Y. E., 1976	35 (in Hebrew)
Meimaris, Y. E., 1990	418-419, 462, fig. 52 (ph., dr.) (ed. pr.)
Feissel, D., 1992	546, no. 649

Abbreviation for Journals and Series

Epigraphical corpora:

SEG 40 (1990): 1485

CIIP IV.1 (2018): 3131 (ph.)

Inscription type:

dedicatory

Location:

Engraved on a marble fragment, found blocking together with other stones the entrance to the western burial chamber in 1976.

On a moveable object:

chancel screen

Physical description :

Large white marble fragment of a chancel screen (?). The original text of the inscription (a) was later written over to give another personal name (b). Small overhanging omega in the second name.

Text:

(a) [--]Υ̣ΕΟΣ Πέτρου ΟΣΙ[--]

(b) [--]Υ̣ΕΟΣ Θεωδούλου ΟΣΙ[--]

Translation:

(a) … of Petrus …

(b) … of Theodulus …

Commentary:

"The first letter was read as upsilon by Meimaris; if instead we read a psi, something like [ὑπὲρ ἀναλήμ]ψεος becomes possible." (CIIP)

Summary:

Fragmentary dedicatory (?) inscription of Petrus, reused for Theodulus, on a large piece of white marble, found blocking the entrance to the western burial chamber.

Contents

Personal names:

Petrus, Theodulus

Epigraphical formulae:

repose (anapausis, koimêsis)

Epigraphical Abbreviations:

ΟΥ in ligature