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Dating:
AD 501
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AD 700
Language:
Syriac
Monumental:
Medium:
wall
Visible:
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Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
invocation of God
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Placement:
wall
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Description
date: unknown. description: The following graffiti were recorded next to a figural depiction (a crudely depicted crucified person? Jesus or, perhaps, a stylite), on the west wall of a monastic tower. Syriac graffiti are mixed with depictions of crosses and possibly some (later?) Arabic letters? Drawings and French translations are offered in Peña, I., Castellana, P., Fernandez, R., Les Reclus Syriens (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1980). ed. Peña, Castellana, Fernandez 1980, p. 327–328 and 427 (drawings). 1. [Qu'il soit] béni, l'ange le fils! 2. avec toi commentary: Quite strangely, the editors interpreted the graffiti as an ex-voto offering for a safe birth of a son. They also remark that Jesus used to be called the "Angel of God".
Author:
Paweł Nowakowski
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-07-22 10:28:07
Last update:
2023-11-13 15:42:41
Building:
monastic tower
Dimensions: surface: meter
Condition: The following graffiti were recorded next to a figural depiction (a crudely depicted crucified person? Jesus or, perhaps, a stylite), on the west wall of a monastic tower.
Text: Syriac graffiti are mixed with depictions of crosses and possibly some (later?) Arabic letters?
Date: 501 CE - 700 CE
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Syria Bānastūr (Bānasṭūr; Bēṯ Nesṭōr[īōs]; Banastoûr) 3.987455, 35.849484 monastic tower wall
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: graffiti
Summary:
Graffiti 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; 2023-08-19 Pawel Nowakowski 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
[Qu'il soit] béni, l'ange le fils!
avec toi
Commentary
Quite strangely, the editors interpreted the graffiti as an ex-voto offering for a safe birth of a son. They also remark that Jesus used to be called the "Angel of God".
Bibliography (edition)
- I., Peña, P. Castellana, R., Fernandez, 1980, Les reclus syriens: recherches sur les anciennes formes de vie solitaire en Syrie, Jerusalem, 327–328,427 (drawings).