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Linguistic features:
Writing from top to bottom; Writing on the door jamb
Formulae:
amen; ܒܫܢܬ In the year
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 543
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AD 544
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: 543/544 or 550/551 CE (era of Antioch). description: Written from top to bottom in the east door-jamb of a private house. Expect for this doorway, the house is mostly destroyed. Dimensions: W. 0.69 m. Letter height 2–6 cm. Dimensions of the cross which accompanies the text: H. 13 cm; W. 11 cm. First recorded by the PAES and first published by Enno Littmann in 1934 with a drawing. ed. PAES IVB 54. Cf. TIB 15, p. 1348. ܒܫܢܬ ܚܡܫܡܐܐ ܘܬܫܥܝܢ ܘܬ[ܪܬܝܢ] . ܝܢ + ܘܬܪܬܝܢ or ܘܬܫܥ Littmann || 2. traces of three leters, maybe from ܬܪܬܝܢ Littmann, perhaps ܠܝܢ = Leon or Linos: Littmann, perhaps ܐܡܝܢ which is, however, unusual, Littmann ‘In the year five hundred and ninety and [two] (or: [nine]).’ commentary: Littmann probably rightly suppose that line two may contain the word ‘amen.’
Author:
Paweł Nowakowski
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-08-10 19:00:45
Last update:
2023-11-13 19:33:22
Dimensions: surface: w 0.69 meter
Condition: Written from top to bottom in the east door-jamb of a private house. Expect for this doorway, the house is mostly destroyed. Dimensions of the cross which accompanies the text: H. 13 cm; W. 11 cm.
Text: Letter height 2–6 cm. Writing from top to bottom.
Date: 543 CE - 544 CE
or 550/551 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: inscription
Summary:
Inscription from a house in Kalūta (Klūta; Klōta; Kālōtā; Kheurbet Kaloûti; Ḫirbat Kalūtī; Ḫirbat Kalūta). 543 CE - 544 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: ܘܬܪܬܝܢ or ܘܬܫܥ Littmann
2: traces of three leters, maybe from ܬܪܬܝܢ Littmann, perhaps ܠܝܢ = Leon or Linos: Littmann, perhaps ܐܡܝܢ which is, however, unusual, Littmann
Translation
‘In the year five hundred and ninety and [two] (or: [nine]).’
Commentary
Littmann probably rightly suppose that line two may contain the word ‘amen.’
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, 54.
Bibliography
- TIB 15 K.-P., Todt, B. A., Vest, 2014, Tabula Imperii Byzantini, Vienna, 1348.