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Linguistic features:
Formulae:
Name and function
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 450
-
AD 700
Language:
Syriac
Monumental:
Medium:
stone
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
Funds:
Price:
Placement:
unknown
People mentioned:
Name:
MWŠʾ/Moses
Patronym:
Status:
unspecified
Ethnic allegance:
unspecified
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
Name recorded
Occupation:
unspecified
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Christianity
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Syriac
Description
date: unknown. description: On a stone slab removed from its original location and left near the apse of the church. Dimensions: H. 80 cm; W. 120 cm; Th. 35 cm. Letter height 7 cm. ed. Jarry 1970, no. 51. ܡܘܫܐ ‘Moses’ commentary: Jarry does not comment on this inscription. This is probably to name of a local cleric or monk, perhaps spontaneously carved on the slab by this person himself or by another person who admired him. Alternatively, this could be the name of the Old Testament Prophet.
Author:
Paweł Nowakowski
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-08-02 23:45:38
Last update:
2023-11-13 18:18:31
Building:
church
Dimensions: surface: w 120 x h 80 x d 35 cm
Condition: On a stone slab removed from its original location and left near the apse of the church.
Text: Letter height 7 cm.
Date: 450 CE - 700 CE
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Syria Ḫirbat as-Sanad (Dayr (as-)Sanad; Deir Send) 32.440821, 36.83252 church outer wall
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: inscription
Summary:
Inscription from Ḫirbat as-Sanad (Dayr (as-)Sanad; Deir Send). 450 CE - 700 CE.
Changes history: 2022-08-02 Pawel Nowakowski Creation; 2023-08-30 Pawel Nowakowski Last modification; 2023-10-26 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
Available under licence CC-BY 4.0
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‘Moses’
Commentary
Jarry does not comment on this inscription. This is probably to name of a local cleric or monk, perhaps spontaneously carved on the slab by this person himself or by another person who admired him. Alternatively, this could be the name of the Old Testament Prophet.
Bibliography (edition)
- J., Jarry,1970, Inscriptions de Syrie du Nord, relevées en 1969, Annales Islamologiques 9, 51.