Complete
Linguistic features:
Formulae:
Name and function
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 401
-
AD 700
Language:
Greek
Monumental:
Medium:
capital
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
column
Funds:
Price:
Placement:
capital
People mentioned:
Name:
Seleukianos
Patronym:
Status:
unspecified
Ethnic allegance:
unspecified
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
Benefactor
Occupation:
unspecified
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Christianity
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Greek
Description
date: Unknown. description: From a capital. When recorded, it was reused in a mosque. Letter height 7–8 cm. Original location unknown – René Mouterde hypothesized that it was just possibly the basilica of as-Safīra where another Greek inscription was recorded. First published by René Mouterde from a copy and squeeze by Charles Virolleaud. ed. IGLS II 260. Cf. TIB 15, p. 1672. Σελευκ- ⳩ ιανο- υ "Of Seleukianos." Commentary: This a dedicatory inscription proclaiming that the capital was a donation by a certain Seleukianos.
Author:
Paweł Nowakowski
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-12-31 22:49:52
Last update:
2023-11-13 21:41:54
Building:
Basilica
Condition: From a capital. When recorded, it was reused in a mosque.
Text: Letter height 7–8 cm.
Date: 401 CE - 700 CE
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Syria as-Safīra (Safīra; Safīrāʾ; Bersera?) 35.856042, 37.360082 Unidentified church unknown
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: dedicatory inscription
Summary:
Inscription from basilica in as-Safīra (Safīra; Safīrāʾ; Bersera?). 401 CE - 700 CE.
Changes history: 2022-12-31 Pawel Nowakowski Creation; 2023-09-03 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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‘Of Seleukianos.’
Commentary
This a dedicatory inscription proclaiming that the capital was a donation by a certain Seleukianos.
Bibliography (edition)
- IGLS II L., Jalabert, R., Mouterde, 1939, Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie, 2, Chalcidique et Antiochène, Paris, 260.
Bibliography
- TIB 15 K.-P., Todt, B. A., Vest, 2014, Tabula Imperii Byzantini, Vienna, 1672.