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E00730: Greek inscription on a capital found at Doğu Çamlik on the island of Prokonnesos (Sea of Marmara) with a dedication to *Mary (Mother of Christ, S00033). Tentatively dated stylistically to the Theodosian period (late 4th - earlier 5th c.).

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posted on 2015-09-22, 00:00 authored by pnowakowski
Θ(εο)τ(όκ)ῳ τοῦ [- - -]

'For (? the church of) the Theotokos of the [- - -]'

Text: Asgari, Drew-Bear 2002, no. 40.

History

Evidence ID

E00730

Saint Name

Mary, Mother of Christ : S00033

Saint Name in Source

Θεοτόκος

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Type of Evidence

Inscriptions - Inscribed architectural elements Inscriptions - Formal inscriptions (stone, mosaic, etc.)

Language

  • Greek

Evidence not before

400

Evidence not after

500

Activity not before

400

Activity not after

500

Place of Evidence - Region

Asia Minor

Place of Evidence - City, village, etc

Marmara, island

Place of evidence - City name in other Language(s)

Marmara island Nicomedia Νικομήδεια Nikomēdeia Izmit Πραίνετος Prainetos Nicomedia

Cult activities - Places

Cult building - unspecified

Source

Inscription cut on the abacus of an Ionic capital found at Doğu Çamlik on the island of Prokonnesos (the Sea of Marmara). Letters are painted red. H. 0.2 m W. 0.46 m

Discussion

The capital comes from the quarry island of Prokonnesos, which was very active in the late-antique period. It has been supposed, rightly in our opinion, that the inscription is one of ownership - referring to the church for which the capital was carved. Proconnesian marble was exported in the fifth and sixth centuries all over the Mediterranean. The style of decorations of the capital has been tentatively dated to the Theodosian period.

Bibliography

Edition: Asgari, N., Drew-Bear, Th., "The quarry inscriptions of Prokonnesos", in: J. Herrmann, N. Herz and R. Newman (eds.), ASMOSIA V. Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of the Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1998 (London: Archetype Publications, 2002), 1-18. Reference works: L'Année épigraphique (2002), 1378. Chroniques d'épigraphie byzantine, 247. Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 53, 1396.

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