Complete
Linguistic features:
Formulae:
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 582
-
AD 587
Language:
Greek
Monumental:
Medium:
mosaic
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
mosaic
Funds:
unknown
Price:
Placement:
baptistery
People mentioned:
Name:
Stephan
Patronym:
Status:
religious_authority
Ethnic allegance:
unspecified
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
Name recorded
Occupation:
head of the monastery
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Christianity
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Greek
Description
date: end of the 6th century description: Inscription on mosaic in the baptistery floor. ed. https://dig.corps-cmhl.huji.ac.il/epigraphicals/kursi-gerasa-chorsia-gergesa-church [☩] Ἐπὶ τοῦ θεοφιλ(εστάτου) Στε- [φ]άνου πρεσβ(υτέρου) καὶ ἡγου- μένου ἐγένετο ἡ ψή- φωσις τοῦ φωτιστη- ρίου ἐν μη(νὶ) Δεκεμβρίῳ ἰνδ(ικτιῶνι) τετάρτῃ ἐπὶ το(ῦ) εὐσεβ(εστάτου) καὶ φιλοχ(ρίστο)υ ἡ- μῶν βασιλέως Μαυρικίου ὑπατίας πρώτης. ☩ 'In the time of the most God-loving Stephan, priest and abbot, the mosaic pavement of the baptistry was made, in the month of December of the 4th indiction, during the first (post-)consular year of the our most pious and Christ-loving emperor Mauricius.' Apparatus: L.6 ἰνδ(ικτίωνι) τετάρτῃ or ἰνδ(ικτιῶνος) τετάρτη L.7: εὐσεβ(οῦς) or εὐσεβ(εστάτου) https://dig.corps-cmhl.huji.ac.il/epigraphicals/kursi-gerasa-chorsia-gergesa-church SEG 30: 1697 (https://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/319948) SEG 33:1270 (https://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/320066) Published also in (but unavailable online): SEG 46: 1909 SEG 55 1715
Author:
Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2023-05-11 14:08:36
Last update:
2024-01-21 08:48:05
Building:
Monastery
Site:
Kursi; Chorsia
Dimensions: surface: cm
Condition: Inscription on mosaic in the baptistery floor.
Text:
Date: 582 CE - 587 CE
end of the 6th century
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Palestina Kursi (Chorsia) 32.826086, 35.650378 Monastery baptistery
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: mosaic inscription
Summary:
Mosaic inscription in Greek script from Kursi; (Chorsia). 582 CE - 587 CE.
Changes history: 2023-05-11 Tomasz Barański Creation; 2024-01-21 Martyna Swierk Last modification; 2024-01-21 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
Available under licence CC-BY 4.0
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6: ἰνδ(ικτίωνι) τετάρτῃ or ἰνδ(ικτιῶνος) τετάρτη
7: εὐσεβ(οῦς) or εὐσεβ(εστάτου)
Translation
'In the time of the most God-loving Stephan, priest and abbot, the mosaic pavement of the baptistry was made, in the month of December of the 4th indiction, during the first (post-)consular year of the our most pious and Christ-loving emperor Mauricius.'
Commentary
Bibliography
- SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 30, 1697. SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 33, 1270. SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 46, 1909. SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 55, 1715.