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Linguistic features:
Writing from top to bottom; Writing on the door jamb; Inversed order of numerals
Formulae:
ܒܫܢܬ In the year
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 545
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AD 546
Language:
Syriac
Monumental:
Medium:
wall
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
Foundation of a building
Funds:
Price:
Placement:
door jamb
People mentioned:
Description
date: probably 545/546 CE (era of Antioch). description: Written from top to bottom on the left-hand jamb of a private house. While the inscription is only on one jamb, both door-jambs are decorated with crosses. Scarcely legible. First recorded by the PAES and first published by Enno Littmann in 1934 with a drawing. ed. PAES IVB 55. Cf. TIB 15, p. 1348. ܒܫܢܬ ܐܪܒܥ ܘܬܫܥܝܢ ܘܚܡܫܡܐܐ ܘܬܫܥܝܢ or ܘܚܡܫܝܢ fifty or ܘܫܬܝܢ sixty: Littmann ‘In the year four and ninety and five hundred.’ (transl. E. Littmann) commentary: Littmann warns that the readings in this inscription are very tentative. The inscription apparently gives the era year but the order of numerals seems to be reversed in his interpretation. Since the Seleucid era was denoted in a similar way in Greek inscription, perhaps, we have here an imitation.
Author:
Paweł Nowakowski
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-08-10 18:53:53
Last update:
2023-11-13 19:17:10
Dimensions: surface: cm
Condition: Written from top to bottom on the left-hand jamb of a private house. While the inscription is only on one jamb, both door-jambs are decorated with crosses. Scarcely legible.
Text:
Date: 545 CE - 546 CE
(era of Antioch)
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Syria Kalūta (Klūta; Klōta; Kālōtā; Kheurbet Kaloûti; Ḫirbat Kalūtī; Ḫirbat Kalūta) 36.211822, 36.563351 house door jamb
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: private inscription
Summary:
Inscription from a house in Kalūta (Klūta; Klōta; Kālōtā; Kheurbet Kaloûti; Ḫirbat Kalūtī; Ḫirbat Kalūta). 545 CE - 546 CE.
Changes history: 2022-08-10 Pawel Nowakowski Creation; 2023-08-28 Pawel Nowakowski Last modification; 2023-10-27 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
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1: ܘܬܫܥܝܢ or ܘܚܡܫܝܢ fifty or ܘܫܬܝܢ sixty: Littmann
Translation
‘In the year four and ninety and five hundred.’
(transl. E. Littmann)
Commentary
Littmann warns that the readings in this inscription are very tentative. The inscription apparently gives the era year but the order of numerals seems to be reversed in his interpretation. Since the Seleucid era was denoted in a similar way in Greek inscription, perhaps, we have here an imitation.
Bibliography (edition)
- PAES IVB E., Littmann, 1934, Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1905–5 and 1909. Division IV: Semitic Inscriptions. Section B: Syriac Inscriptions, 55.
Bibliography
- TIB 15 K.-P., Todt, B. A., Vest, 2014, Tabula Imperii Byzantini, Vienna, 1348.