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Linguistic features:
Formulae:
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 501
-
AD 700
Language:
Syriac
Monumental:
Medium:
wall
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
Name recorded
Funds:
Price:
Placement:
wall
People mentioned:
Name:
ḤBŠBʾ/Ḥaḏ-b-šabbā
Patronym:
Status:
unspecified
Ethnic allegance:
unspecified
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
Name recorded
Occupation:
monk_or_clergyman
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Christianity
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Syriac
Description
date: unknown. description: On a block in the outer face of the south wall of a tower in the centre of the monastic enclosure. For the context, see PAES IIIB, Ill. 279 and p. 325 where very large stone blocks are shown. Dimensions: W. 0.72 m. Letter height 8.5–13 cm. First recorded by the PAES and first published by Enno Littmann in 1934 with a drawing. Another drawing is offered by Peña, Castellana, and Fernandez in Les Reclus Syriens. ed. PAES IVB 56. Cf. Peña, Castellana, and Fernandez 1980, p. 327–328, 427; TIB 15, p. 939. ܚܒܫܒܐ ‘Ḥab(bĕ)šabbā.’ (tr. E. Littmann) commentary: Littmann suggests that this is a form of the name ܒܪ ܚܕܒܫܒܐ, Bar-ḥadh-bĕ-šabbā with the filiation omitted, and in the absolute state. He gives a short discussion of similar names from manuscripts but notes that this form is not attested elsewhere. Greek counterpart usually take the form Βαρσαβσα (PAES III 1157), Βαραψα (PAES III 1136, 1190; IGLS II 441; SEG 1 505), and Βαραψαββα (AAES III 332; IGLS II 271-272), and Σαμβαθαιος. For further comments, see also AAES IV, p. 44. Some of the people bearing this name in Wright’s Catalogue were abbots from the area of the find-spot of the inscription, and Littmann, of course, wonders if these could be identified with our person. He refutes this possibility. Klaus Peter Todt and Bernard Andreas Vest in TIB 15, p. 939 vocalize the name as: “Ḥaḏ-b-šabbā” or “Bar Ḥaḏ-b-šabbā”.
Author:
Paweł Nowakowski
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-07-22 10:15:59
Last update:
2023-11-13 15:32:40
Building:
monastic tower
Dimensions: surface: w 0.72 meter
Condition: On a block in the outer face of the south wall of a tower in the centre of the monastic enclosure. For the context, see PAES IIIB, Ill. 279 and p. 325 where very large stone blocks are shown.
Text: Letter height 8.5–13 cm.
Date: 501 CE - 700 CE
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Syria Bānastūr (Bānasṭūr; Bēṯ Nesṭōr[īōs]; Banastoûr) 36.987455, 35.849484 monastic tower wall
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: incription
Summary:
Inscription from a wall of monastic tower in Bānastūr (Bānasṭūr; Bēṯ Nesṭōr[īōs]; Banastoûr). 501 CE - 700 CE.
Changes history: 2022-07-22 Pawel Nowakowski Creation; 2023-11-13 Martyna Swierk Last modification; 2023-10-20 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
Available under licence CC-BY 4.0
; @2021Translation
‘Ḥab(bĕ)šabbā.’
(tr. E. Littmann)
Commentary
Littmann suggests that this is a form of the name ܒܪ ܚܕܒܫܒܐ, Bar-ḥadh-bĕ-šabbā with the filiation omitted, and in the absolute state. He gives a short discussion of similar names from manuscripts but notes that this form is not attested elsewhere. Greek counterpart usually take the form Βαρσαβσα (PAES III 1157), Βαραψα (PAES III 1136, 1190; IGLS II 441; SEG 1 505), and Βαραψαββα (AAES III 332; IGLS II 271-272), and Σαμβαθαιος. For further comments, see also AAES IV, p. 44.
Some of the people bearing this name in Wright’s Catalogue were abbots from the area of the find-spot of the inscription, and Littmann, of course, wonders if these could be identified with our person. He refutes this possibility.
Klaus Peter Todt and Bernard Andreas Vest in TIB 15, p. 939 vocalizes the name as: “Ḥaḏ-b-šabbā” or “Bar Ḥaḏ-b-šabbā”.
Bibliography (edition)
- PAES IVB E., Littmann,1934, Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1905–5 and 1909. Division IV: Semitic Inscriptions. Section B: Syriac Inscriptions, Paris, 2, 56.
Bibliography
- I., Peña, P. Castellana, R., Fernandez, 1980, Les reclus syriens : recherches sur les anciennes formes de vie solitaire en Syrie, Jerusalem, 327–328. TIB 15 K.-P., Todt, B. A., Vest, 2014, Tabula Imperii Byzantini, Vienna, 939.