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Linguistic features:
Formulae:
Name and function
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 450
-
AD 800
Language:
Syriac
Monumental:
Medium:
column/pillar
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
chancel screen?
Funds:
Price:
Placement:
chancel screen
People mentioned:
Name:
TWMʾ/Thomas
Patronym:
Status:
person of importance
Ethnic allegance:
unspecified
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
Benefactor
Occupation:
physician
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Christianity
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Syriac
Description
Date: No date is given by Paul Mouterde. Probably later than mid-fifth century – as other Syriac inscriptions from this region. description: On a basalt pole which most probably formed part of a chancel screen. Decorated with a carving of a cross with flaring arms, within a circle, and a "chalice enclosed by a tabernacle" according to Brossé’s description, or rather a suspended chalice under an arch, or a suspended lamp according to Paul Mouterde. Broken and lost on top and bottom. Mouterde is probably right as similar images are known from floor mosaics. There was also no reason to suspend a chalice at the entrance while it was a common practice from lamps/polycandela. Preserved H. 0.94 m. The inscription is written from top to bottom. First published by Paul Mouterde from a drawing by C. L. Brossé. ed. Mouterde & Poidebard 1945, 224, no. 6 and fig. 41. ܬܘܡܐ ܐܣܚܒ 2. read ܐܣܝܐ ‘physician’ Mouterde ‘Thomas, the physician (?).’ (tr. after P. Mouterde) commentary: Mouterde says that the second word is conjectural, but it should be a title or profession. He interpreted it as "physician".
Author:
Paweł Nowakowski
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-12-31 23:28:01
Last update:
2023-11-13 21:45:50
Building:
Unidentified church
Site:
Ǧneyd; Ǧened; ´Genêd
Dimensions: surface: h 0.94 meter
Condition: On a basalt pole which most probably formed part of a chancel screen. Decorated with a carving of a cross with flaring arms, within a circle, and a "chalice enclosed by a tabernacle" according to Brossé’s description, or rather a suspended chalice under an arch, or a suspended lamp according to Paul Mouterde. Broken and lost on top and bottom. Mouterde is probably right as similar images are known from floor mosaics. There was also no reason to suspend a chalice at the entrance while it was a common practice from lamps/polycandela.
Text: The inscription is written from top to bottom.
Date: 450 CE - 800 CE
No date is given by Paul Mouterde. Probably later than mid-fifth century – as other Syriac inscriptions from this region.
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Syria Ǧneyd (Ǧened; ´Genêd) 36.079154, 37.372847 Unidentified church chancel screen
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: Christian inscription
Summary:
Inscription with a name from church in Ǧneyd (Ǧened; ´Genêd). 450 CE - 800 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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2: read ܐܣܝܐ ‘physician’ Mouterde
Translation
‘Thomas, the physician (?).’
(tr. after P. Mouterde)
Commentary
Mouterde says that the second word is conjectural, but it should be a title or profession. He interpreted it as "physician".
Bibliography (edition)
- R., Mouterde, A., Poidebard, 1945, Le limes de Chalcis. Organisation de la steppe en haute Syrie romaine, Paris, 224, 4 and fig. 41.