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Linguistic features:
Writing from top to bottom
Formulae:
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 450
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AD 700
Language:
Syriac
Monumental:
Medium:
stone
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
unknown
Funds:
Price:
Placement:
gate
People mentioned:
Description
date: unknown. description: On a stone block of the monastery’s gateway. Reportedly reused, which has implications for the relation of this inscription to another one found on the same wall. Positioned to the left and below of the other text. ed. Jarry 1967, 156, no. 30. Cf. TIB 15, p. 1603. ܡܬܕܡܐ [… ܐܬܘܣ [… ܠܬܠܝܬܝܘܬܐ [… commentary: Jarry deemed the text puzzling and unintelligible. He claimed, however, that it had no links to the other Syriac inscription from the monastery's gateway as it was probably made before the block was reused. A very tentative supposition is that line 2 may have contained a transcription from Greek or Latin into Syriac of a word or name ending with -atos.
Author:
Paweł Nowakowski
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-08-15 00:02:30
Last update:
2023-11-13 20:20:02
Building:
Monastery’s gateway
Condition: On a stone block of the monastery’s gateway. Reportedly reused, which has implications for the relation of this inscription to another one found on the same wall. Positioned to the left and below of the other text.
Text: Writing from top to bottom.
Date: 450 CE - 700 CE
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Syria Qaṣr ad-Dayr (Qaṣr ed-Deir) 34.922778, 40.561667 Monastery’s gateway gate
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: Monumental inscription
Summary:
Inscription from a monastery in Qaṣr ad-Dayr (Qaṣr ed-Deir). 450 CE - 700 CE.
Changes history: 2022-08-14 Pawel Nowakowski Creation; 2023-08-21 Pawel Nowakowski Last modification; 2023-11-06 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
Available under licence CC-BY 4.0
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Commentary
Jarry deemed the text puzzling and unintelligible. He claimed, however, that it had no links to the other Syriac inscription from the monastery's gateway as it was probably made before the block was reused. A very tentative supposition is that line 2 may have contained a transcription from Greek or Latin into Syriac of a word or name ending with -atos.
Bibliography (edition)
- J., Jarry, 1967, Inscriptions arabes, syriaques et grecques du massif du Bélus en Syrie du nord [avec 42 planches], Annales Islamologiques 7, 156, 30.
Bibliography
- TIB 15 K.-P., Todt, B. A., Vest, 2014, Tabula Imperii Byzantini, Vienna, 1603.