E00920: Greek inscription with a reference to Christ, described as the offspring of the holy Virgin (*Mary, Mother of Christ, S00033). Found at Laodikeia/Laodicea Combusta (Pisidia, west central Asia Minor). Probably 6th-8th c. or later.
Cult activities - Non Liturgical Practices and Customs
Prayer/supplication/invocation
Cult Activities - Protagonists in Cult and Narratives
Other lay individuals/ people
Source
A piece of bluish limestone, reused in a well. It may originally have been part of a sarcophagus. H. 0.35 m; W. 0.176 m; Th. 0.84 m. The stone bears a carving of a cross pattée in a circular cavity, a six-leaved rosette and a whorl.
Discussion
Gertrud Laminger-Pascher suggests that the second part of the inscription does not contain the reference to Mary as the Holy Virgin and Mother of Christ, but the name of a dedicant, who came from the village of Mannake, which is probably an alternative spelling of Manaba (Μάναβα, Μάναυα, Μάναυγα). The village lay between Side and Kotenna.
Dating: This kind of invocation with the 'servant-of-saint' formula is usually dated to the 6th-8th c. or later. The formula is certainly common in the middle Byzantine period.
Bibliography
Edition:
Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua I, no. 249.
Laminger-Pascher, G., Beiträge zu den griechischen Inschriften Lykaoniens (Ergänzungsbände zu den tituli Asiae Minoris 11, Denkschriften (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) 173, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften), no. 126.
Inscriptiones Christianae Graecae database, no. 524: http://www.epigraph.topoi.org/ica/icamainapp/inscription/show/524
Reference works:
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 34, 1378.