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Linguistic features:
Syriac superseding Greek in the sixth century
Formulae:
ܒܫܢܬ In the year; ܒܝܪܚ ... ܕܫܢܬ – In the month ... of the year
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 513
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AD 513
Language:
Syriac
Monumental:
Medium:
lintel
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
Foundation of a baptistery
Funds:
Price:
Placement:
door lintel
People mentioned:
Description
date: 513 CE (the year 561 of the era of Antioch). description: In the north wall of the baptistery, just opposite the basilica, there is a stone lintel with a Syriac inscription. Dimensions: H. 0.56 m; W. 1.95 m. Beneath the inscription one can see a carved disc with a six-pointed star within it. Diameter of the disc: 29 cm. Letter height 5–9.5 cm. First recorded by the PAES and first published by Enno Littmann in 1934 with a drawing. ed. PAES IVB 23. Cf. TIB 15, p. 1160. ܒܝܪܚ ܐܝܪ ܕܫܢܬ ܬ ܩ ܣ ܐ ‘In the month of Īyār (May) of the year 561.’ (tr. E. Littmann, lightly modified) commentary: Littmann noted that a similar formula occurs in PAES IVB 24, another Syriac inscription from the same village.
Author:
Paweł Nowakowski
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-08-08 15:43:08
Last update:
2023-11-13 19:03:50
Building:
baptistery
Site:
Fidra; Fidre; al-Fādira
Dimensions: surface: w 1.95 x h 0.56 meter
Condition: In the north wall of the baptistery, just opposite the basilica, there is a stone lintel with a Syriac inscription.Beneath the inscription one can see a carved disc with a six-pointed star within it. Diameter of the disc: 29 cm.
Text: Letter height 5–9.5 cm. Syriac superseding Greek in the sixth century.
Date: 513 CE
(the year 561 of the era of Antioch)
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Syria Fidra (Fidre; al-Fādira) 36.241878, 36.823709 baptistery door lintel
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: building inscription
Summary:
Inscription from a baptistery in Fidra (Fidre; al-Fādira). 513 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
; @2021Commentary
Littmann noted that a similar formula occurs in PAES IVB 24, another Syriac inscription from the 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, 23.
Bibliography
- TIB 15 K.-P., Todt, B. A., Vest, 2014, Tabula Imperii Byzantini, Vienna, 1160.