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Linguistic features:
Syriac superseding Greek in the sixth century
Formulae:
ܒܢ built by; ܒܫܢܬ In the year; ܒܝܪܚ ... ܕܫܢܬ – In the month ... of the year
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 532
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AD 532
Language:
Syriac
Monumental:
Medium:
architrave
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
Foundation of a building
Funds:
Price:
Placement:
architrave of a colonnade
People mentioned:
Description
date: 532 CE (the year 580 of the era of Antioch). description: The inscription runs across and architrave from a colonnade of the second story of a house. Dimensions: H. 0.43 m; W. 2.31 m. Decorated with a cross within a circle to the right of the inscription (diameter: 17 cm). Letter height 3.5–7.5 cm. First recorded by the PAES and first published by Enno Littmann in 1934 with a drawing. ed. PAES IVB 24. [- - -] ܒܝܪܚ ܬܡܘܙ ܕܫܢܬ ܬܩܦ possibly ܐܬܒܢܝ, or ‘it was built’ was written at the beginning of the text: Littmann ‘In the month of Tāmūz (July) of the year 580.’ (tr. E. Littmann, lightly modified) commentary: The formula is very simple, just the month and the year are given. It looks similar to that of PAES IVB 23 from this same village.
Author:
Paweł Nowakowski
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-08-08 15:31:41
Last update:
2023-11-13 19:01:39
Building:
house
Site:
Fidra; Fidre; al-Fādira
Dimensions: surface: w 2.31 x h 0.43 meter
Condition: The inscription runs across and architrave from a colonnade of the second story of a house. Decorated with a cross within a circle to the right of the inscription (diameter: 17 cm).
Text: Letter height 3.5–7.5 cm. Syriac superseding Greek in the sixth century.
Date: 532 CE
(the year 580 of the era of Antioch)
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Syria Fidra (Fidre; al-Fādira) 36.241878, 36.823709 house architrave of a colonnade
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: building inscription
Summary:
Inscription from a house in Fidra (Fidre; al-Fādira). 532 CE
Changes history: 2022-08-08 Pawel Nowakowski Creation; 2023-08-29 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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1: Possibly ܐܬܒܢܝ, or ‘it was built’ was written at the beginning of the text: Littmann.
Commentary
The formula is very simple, just the month and the year are given. It looks similar to that of PAES IVB 23 from this same village.
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, 24.