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Irbid, 535 CE. Mosaic. Dedicatory.
Transcription

+ Θείᾳ χάριτι ἐπὶ τοῦ ὁσιωτάτου Ἰωάαννου ἀρχιεπισκόπου σπουδῇ Κυριακοῦ θεοσεβεστάτου πρεσβυτέρου καὶ παραμοναρίου ἐψηφώθη ὁ ναὸς οὗτος μηνὶ Ἀρτεμησίου α᾿ χρονοῖς ιγ᾿ τοῦ υλ᾿ ἔτους Ἠλὶας στρατηγὸς

Translation

By divine grace, under the most pious archbishop John, by the zeal of the pious priest and paramonarios Kyriakos, this church was paved with mosaics, on the 1st of the month Artemisios, in the time of the 13th indiction, in the year 430; Elias, Strat-.

Diplomatic

[no diplomatic]

Terminus post quem:
Terminus ante quem:
Notes
possible endings for the last word are strategos (magister militum), strateles (magister militum), or stratiotes (soldier)

Languages

Greek

Dimensions

H: 237 cm; W: 32 cm; D: —

Date

535 CE to 535 CE

Current location

Jordan Museum, inv. IR 36

Figures

  • Tabula ansata with red, brown, and black tesselae containing inscription

  • Horizontal strokes above numerals

  • Red cross beginning of inscription

Bibliography

Source of diplomatic

  • Sartre, Maurice, Pierre-Louis Gatier, Nabil Bader, Julien Aliquot, and Jean-Baptiste yon. “Greek Inscriptions in the Jordan Museum.” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 58 (2017): 341–50. https://www.academia.edu/82196116/Greek_inscriptions_in_the_Jordan_Museum. insc 02.
    Zotero

Source of transcription

  • Sartre, Maurice, Pierre-Louis Gatier, Nabil Bader, Julien Aliquot, and Jean-Baptiste yon. “Greek Inscriptions in the Jordan Museum.” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 58 (2017): 341–50. https://www.academia.edu/82196116/Greek_inscriptions_in_the_Jordan_Museum. insc 02.
    Zotero

Source of translation

  • Sartre, Maurice, Pierre-Louis Gatier, Nabil Bader, Julien Aliquot, and Jean-Baptiste yon. “Greek Inscriptions in the Jordan Museum.” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 58 (2017): 341–50. https://www.academia.edu/82196116/Greek_inscriptions_in_the_Jordan_Museum. insc 02.
    Zotero
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