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E00805: Fragment of a Greek inscription with the name of a sanctuary dedicated to *Mary (Mother of Christ, S00033) called 'the one (of the district?) of the Kyrou.' Found in Miletos (Caria, western Asia Minor), tentatively dated to 5th-6th c.

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posted on 2015-10-21, 00:00 authored by pnowakowski

[- - - τῆς δεσποί]̣νης ἡμῶν τῆς ἁγίας ἐνδόξου Θ+εοτόκου καὶ ἀειπαρθένου Μαρίας τῆς εἰς τὰ Κύρρου +
1. ]̣ιτης (?) Herrmann

'[- - of] our [La]dy, the holy and glorious Th+eotokos and ever-Virgin Mary, the one (of the district?) of the Kyrou +.'

Text: Milet VI/2, no. 961.

History

Evidence ID

E00805

Saint Name

Mary, Mother of Christ : S00033

Saint Name in Source

Μαρία

Related Saint Records

https://oxford.figshare.com/articles/Mary_Mother_of_Christ/13729186

Type of Evidence

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

Language

Greek

Evidence not before

400

Evidence not after

600

Activity not before

400

Activity not after

600

Place of Evidence - Region

Asia Minor

Place of Evidence - City, village, etc

Miletus

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

Miletus Nicomedia Νικομήδεια Nikomēdeia Izmit Πραίνετος Prainetos Nicomedia

Cult activities - Places

Cult building - unspecified

Source

Piece of a white marble architrave (H. 0,26 m; W. 1,94 m; Th. 0,65 m), found near the city walls of Miletos (Caria, western Asia Minor). Perhaps displaced from the so-called round church located near the southern section of the wall (for this sanctuary see Kleiner, G., Die Ruinen von Milet (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1968), 138).

Discussion

The inscription gives us the name of a sanctuary dedicated to *Mary (Mother of Christ), called 'our Lady, the holy and glorious Theotokos and ever-Virgin Mary' and 'the one of the Kyrrou'. Henri Grégoire plausibly suggested that the latter designation referred to a Constantinopolitan monastery of Mary, called μονὴ τῆς Θεοτόκου τῶν Κύρου, which was located in the district τὰ Κύρου. Probably late antique, tentatively dated to the 5th or 6th c. by Henri Grégoire.

Bibliography

Edition: Milet VI/2 961. Grégoire, H. (ed.), Recueil des inscriptions grecques chrétiennes d'Asie Mineure, vol. 1 (Paris: Leroux, 1922), no. 224. Inscriptiones Christianae Graecae database, no. 1718: http://www.epigraph.topoi.org/ica/icamainapp/inscription/show/1718 Reference works: L'Année épigraphique (1998), 1360. Chroniques d'épigraphie byzantine, 304. Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 48, 1411.

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