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Linguistic features:
Formulae:
εἶς Θεός One God
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 401
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AD 500
Language:
Greek
Monumental:
Medium:
lintel
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
Foundation of a building
Funds:
Price:
Placement:
door/window lintel
People mentioned:
Description
date: unknown. description: On a stone slab, probably fragment of a lintel. Preserved dimensions: H. 45 cm; W. 120 cm; Th. 25 cm. Letter height 8,5 cm. When recorded, the stone was lying on the ground, c.50 m to the East from IGLS II 373 (the ‘bilingual’ inscription from a ruined house). Not necessarily, though possibly, from the same building. ed. Jarry 1970, no. 5. … ὁ βοηθών βοήθων Jarry ‘The one who helps’. ‘Secourable’ (tr. J. Jarry) commentary: The inscription may have contained the One God/εἷς Θεός formula, as another lintel from this site (IGLS II 373) was decorated with this text.
Author:
Paweł Nowakowski
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-07-28 11:53:55
Last update:
2023-11-13 17:46:39
Dimensions: surface: w 120 x h 45 x d 25 cm
Condition: On a stone slab, probably fragment of a lintel. When recorded, the stone was lying on the ground, c.50 m to the East from IGLS II 373 (the ‘bilingual’ inscription from a ruined house). Not necessarily, though possibly, from the same building.
Text: Letter height 8,5 cm
Date: 401 CE - 500 CE
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Syria Burǧ al-Qās (Burdj il-Ḳās; Borg el-Qas; Borġ el-Qâs; Borj el-Kas) 36.367137, 36.940174 unknown door/window lintel
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: inscription
Summary:
Fragmentary inscription from Burǧ al-Qās (Burdj il-Ḳās; Borg el-Qas; Borġ el-Qâs; Borj el-Kas). 401 CE – 500 CE.
Changes history: 2022-07-28 Pawel Nowakowski Creation; 2022-07-28 Pawel Nowakowski Last modification; 2023-10-19 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
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1: βοήθων Jarry
Translation
‘The one who helps’. ‘Secourable’
(tr. J. Jarry)
Commentary
The inscription may have contained the One God/εἷς Θεός formula, as another lintel from this site (IGLS II 373) was decorated with this text.
Bibliography (edition)
- J., Jarry,1967, Inscriptions arabes, syriaques et grecques du massif du Bélus en Syrie du nord (suite) [avec 9 planches], Annales Islamologiques 9, 5.