Sakizlar; Sekizlar Complete

Description

A viilage registered in TIB 15 on pp. 1677–1678 as Sakizlar. Also spelt: Sekizlar / Sakızlar. Situated near Hierapolis-Bambyke/Manbij. A modern village, notable mainly through the finds of Greek and Syriac inscriptions during the surveys by Henri Seyrig and Jacques Jarry (Tchalenko's expeditions). Literature: TIB 15 – Todt, K.P., Vest, B.A., Tabula Imperii Byzantini, vol. 15 (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014), p. 1677–1678. Peña, I., Lieux de pèlerinage en Syrie (Milan: Franciscan Printing Press, 2000), p. 27. Syriac inscription: Jarry, J., ‘Inscriptions arabes, syriaques et grecques du massif du Bélus en Syrie du nord [avec 42 planches]’, Annales Islamologiques 7 (1967), 157, no. 32 = CSLA.E01968 (identified as an inscription for a certain martyr Kosmas, though the reading is problematic). Greek inscriptions: Seyrig, H., “Antiquitésyriennes, 30. – Inscriptions”, Syria 20 (1939), p. 304–305, no. 4 (family epitaph naming a certain Straton with his wife Kyrilla and their daughter Mathsemea). Jarry, J., ‘Inscriptions arabes, syriaques et grecques du massif du Bélus en Syrie du nord [avec 42 planches]’, Annales Islamologiques 7 (1967), p. 203, nos. 143 (Silvanus, son of Kosmas), 144 (Isagoras, son of Maron), 145 (Maros, son of Apollonides), 146 (Thokonhadad) – epitaphs sharing the formula ἄλυπε χαῖρε, very rough, geometrical majuscule lettering. Greek, Roman, and Semitic names.