Complete
Linguistic features:
Formulae:
Name and function
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 500
-
AD 600
Language:
Christian Palestinian Aramaic
Monumental:
Medium:
mosaic
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
Funds:
Price:
Placement:
Near the threshold of the door to the church
People mentioned:
Name:
QYA (or QYAN?)
Patronym:
the son of HSBWBW
Status:
priest
Ethnic allegance:
Semitic
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
Benefactor
Occupation:
priest
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Christianity
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Christian Palestinian Aramaic
Description
In the complex of chambers adjacent to the church in the monastery, in the central one there is a relatively well-preserved mosaic pavement depicting a checkerboard grid with crosses. Near the threshold of the door communicating with the church there is a two-line inscription in Syrian-Palestinian. There is a cross in the end of the second line. The whole inscription is framed by tabula ansata. The inscription is at the fringe of the mosaic that was decorated with geometrical ornaments and once depicted humans and animals, but they seem to be deliberately destroyed in the second stage of the monastery’s history (after 723AD). (according to al-Hasan). Text: 1. ܡܪܐ ܥܝܒܕ ܪܚܐܡܝܢ ܠܠ ܩ(ܐ؟)ܫܝܫܐ ܩܝܐ 2. ܒܪܗ ܗܣܘܒܘ ܠܘܕ ܥܒܕ ܕܪܬܐ Transliteration: 1. mrʾ ʿybd rḥʾmyn ll q(ʾ?)šyšʾ qyʾ 2. brh hswbw lwd ʿbd drtʾ Translation: 1. O Lord ask (grant) mercy to the priest QYA (QYAN? – noted by al-Hasan, however, it is uncertain whether it was correctly deciphered.) 2. the son of HSBWBW that has consecrated(?) the chamber(?) Bibliography: al-Hasan ʿA.Q. Aḍwāʾ ǧadīda ʿalā al-kitāba al-fusayfusʾiyya al-ārāmiyya al-suryāniyya al-masīḥyya al-muktašafa ḥadīthan fī mawqiʿ Ḥayyān al-Mušrif – Mafraq, Annual of the Department of Antiquites of Jordan 40 (1996): 11–13. [Arabic section]. al-Muheisen, Z., "Les fouilles de Hayyan al-Mushrif", [in:] M. Piccirillo, “Ricerca StoricoArchaelogica in Giordania XV – 1995.” Liber Annuus (1995), pp. 519-22. idem, "Hayyan al-Mushref Project" [in:] Particia M. Bikai and Virginia Egan, “Archaeology in Jordan.” American Journal of Archaeology (1997), pp. 532-33.
Author:
Julia Borczyńska, Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2023-01-30 13:18:53
Last update:
2024-03-27 08:34:06
Building:
Monastery (Deir)
Site:
Ḥayyān al-Mušrif
Dimensions: surface: cm
Condition: In the complex of chambers adjacent to the church in the monastery, in the central one there is a relatively well-preserved mosaic pavement depicting a checkerboard grid with crosses. Near the threshold of the door communicating with the church there is a two-line inscription in Syrian-Palestinian. There is a cross in the end of the second line. The whole inscription is framed by tabula ansata. The inscription is at the fringe of the mosaic that was decorated with geometrical ornaments and once depicted humans and animals, but they seem to be deliberately destroyed in the second stage of the monastery’s history (after 723AD). (according to al-Hasan).
Text:
Date: Unknown.
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Arabia Ḥayyān al-Mušrif 32.35, 36.2 Monastery (Deir) Near the threshold of the door to the church
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: mosaic inscription
Summary:
Inscription on mosaic from Ḥayyān al-Mušrif. 500 CE - 600 CE.
Changes history: 2023-01-30 Tomasz Barański Creation; 2023-09-15 Julia Borczyńska Tomasz Barański Last modification; 2024-03-27 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
Available under licence CC-BY 4.0
; @2021Translation
'O Lord ask (grant) mercy to the priest QYA (QYAN? – noted by al-Hasan, however, it is uncertain whether it was correctly deciphered.) the son of HSBWBW that has consecrated(?) the chamber(?)'
Commentary
Bibliography
- A.Q., al-Hasan, 1996, Aḍwāʾ ǧadīda ʿalā al-kitāba al-fusayfusʾiyya al-ārāmiyya al-suryāniyya al-masīḥyya al-muktašafa ḥadīthan fī mawqiʿ Ḥayyān al-Mušrif – Mafraq, Annual of the Department of Antiquites of Jordan 40, 11-13. Z., al-Muheisen, 1995, Les fouilles de Hayyan al-Mushrif, [in:] M. Piccirillo, Ricerca Storico Archeologica in Giordania XV – 1995,Liber Annuus, 519-522. Z., al-Muheisen, 1995, Hayyan al-Mushref Project [in:] Particia M. Bikai and Virginia Egan, Archaeology in Jordan, American Journal of Archaeology, 532-533.