E00737: Greek inscription with an invocation of *Peter (the Apostle, S00036), incised on a bowl found in the ruins of a gymnasium in Pergamon (province of Asia, north-west Asia Minor). Probably late antique (5th-8th c.).

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ἅγιε Πέτ[ρε], βοήθι ΕΙΕΑΝ

1. βοηθειε αν = βοήθοῖς ἄν or βοήθει ἄν Lampakis, ΕΙΕΑΝ = Εἰοάν(νῃ) = Ἰωάν(νῃ) Dörpfeld apud Hepding Halkin

'Saint Pet[er], help Ioan(nes?)'

Text: Hepding 1910, no. 72.

History

Evidence ID

E00737

Saint Name

Peter the Apostle : S00036

Saint Name in Source

Πέτρος

Related Saint Records

https://oxford.figshare.com/articles/Peter_the_Apostle/13729195

Type of Evidence

Inscriptions - Formal inscriptions (stone, mosaic, etc.)

Language

Greek

Evidence not before

400

Evidence not after

800

Activity not before

400

Activity not after

800

Place of Evidence - Region

Asia Minor

Place of Evidence - City, village, etc

Pergamon

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

Pergamon Nicomedia Νικομήδεια Nikomēdeia Izmit Πραίνετος Prainetos Nicomedia

Cult activities - Non Liturgical Practices and Customs

Prayer/supplication/invocation

Cult Activities - Protagonists in Cult and Narratives

Other lay individuals/ people

Source

On a rough trachyte bowl, found in the ruins of the 'Gymnasium of the νέοι' in 1905 or 1906. Described as μαρμαρίνη πλάξ by Georgios Lampakis. H. 0.19 m; W. 0.41 m.

Discussion

Invocations of this kind are very common, and cannot be precisely dated.

Bibliography

Edition: Lampakis, G., Οἱ ἑπτὰ ἀστέρες τῆς ἀποκαλύψεως ἤτοι ἱστορία, ἐρείπια, μνημεϊα καὶ νῦν κατάστασις τῶν ἑπτὰ ἐκκλησίων τῆς Ἀσίας (Athens: , 1909), 280 Hepding, H., "Die Arbeiten zu Pergamon 1908-1909 II. Die Inschriften", Athenische Mitteilungen 35 (1910), no. 72 Further Reading: Halkin, F., "Inscriptions grecques relatives à l'hagiographie, IX, Asie Mineure", Analecta Bollandiana 71 (1953), 77