3 | |
389 (C. F. T. Drake) (ed. pr.) | |
II, 303 (dr.) | |
32-33 | |
55, fig. 13 (dr.) | |
134-135, no. 28 (ph., drs.) |
SEG 8 (1937): 118
On two fragments of a stone lintel, found together with a doorstep in secondary use in the village mosque of Aqraba, said to be built on the ruins of Chrisitan church. According to Clermont-Ganneau, the larger fragment was "used as the left upright of the present door", while the smaller was "built in upside down over a small square niche inside the building facing the door". An inscription, presumably the larger fragment, was first noted by Guérin 1870, and both fragments were subsequently copied by Conder and Kitchener, who failed to trace them to a single inscription, the identification being made in 1874 by Clermont-Ganneau.
IAA Archive, British Mandate Scientific Record Files, no. 9
Fragmentary one-line inscription on two pieces of a broken stone lintel. The larger piece, according to Conder–Kitchener and Magen–Kagan, measures 170×70 cm, while Clermont-Ganneau believes "the lintel and the inscription have been cut almost exactly in half". The inscription ends with a cross, and a large geometrical rosette decoration, originally below the inscription, survives near the break at the end of the larger piece of the lintel. Sqaure letters, some of which are worn out. Average space between letters 1 cm.
[- - ε]ὐξά[μενος] ἐν τῷ ἁγίῳ [τόπ]ῳ ἐποίησα ὑπὲρ συμβίου καὶ τέκνων. ☩
[ ... havin]g pr[ayed] in this holy [pla]ce, I made for my wife and children.
- - ἐποίησαν ὑπὲρ σωτηρίας καὶ - - Alt = SEG.
Fragmentary dedicatory inscription on a broken stone lintel found in secondary use.