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Linguistic features:
Formulae:
Name and function
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 401
-
AD 700
Language:
Greek
Monumental:
Medium:
column/pillar
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
column
Funds:
Price:
Placement:
wall
People mentioned:
Name:
Abraamis
Patronym:
Status:
unspecified
Ethnic allegance:
unspecified
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
Name recorded
Occupation:
unspecified
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Christianity
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Greek
Name:
Malch...
Patronym:
Status:
unspecified
Ethnic allegance:
unspecified
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
Name recorded
Occupation:
unspecified
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Christianity
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Greek
Description
date: Unknown. description: On a fragment of a basalt pilaster. Reused in a house, its owner declared that the fragment was brought from the basilica of as-Safīra. Letter height 4,7 cm, in low relief. Dimensions: H. 44 cm; W. 48 cm. First published by René Mouterde from a copy and squeeze by Brossé. ed. IGLS II 261. Cf. TIB 15, p. 1672. Ἀβρααμης Μαλχ... "Abraamis. Malch[- - -]." Commentary: Mouterde gives no commentary. Either two names or a name with a patronym. The poor state of preservation makes it very difficult to give reliable judgements on this piece.Probably a dedicatory inscription.
Author:
Paweł Nowakowski
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-12-31 22:53:16
Last update:
2023-11-13 21:43:23
Building:
Basilica
Dimensions: surface: w 48 x h 44 cm
Condition: On a fragment of a basalt pilaster. Reused in a house, its owner declared that the fragment was brought from the basilica of as-Safīra.
Text: Letter height 4,7 cm.
Date: 401 CE - 700 CE
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Syria as-Safīra (Safīra; Safīrāʾ; Bersera?) 35.856042, 37.360082 Basilica wall
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: dedicatory(?) inscription
Summary:
Greek 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
; @2021Translation
‘Abraamis. Malch[- - -].’
Commentary
Mouterde gives no commentary. Either two names or a name with a patronym. The poor state of preservation makes it very difficult to give reliable judgements on this piece. Probably a dedicatory inscription.
Bibliography (edition)
- IGLS II L., Jalabert, R., Mouterde, 1939, Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie, 2, Chalcidique et Antiochène, Paris, 261.
Bibliography
- TIB 15 K.-P., Todt, B. A., Vest, 2014, Tabula Imperii Byzantini, Vienna, 1672.