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E01078: Greek inscription labelling a tomb owned by a house of ascetics (asketerion) of *Mary (Mother of Christ, S00033) venerated as the God-Bearer. Found at Anazarbos (Cilicia, south-east Asia Minor). Probably 6th c. or later.

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posted on 2016-01-13, 00:00 authored by pnowakowski
On a wall in a small niche in the rock-face:

+ μνῆμα διαφέρον
τοῦ ἀσκιτηρίου τῖς Θεο-
τόκου· ἔχι τὸ ἀνάθεμα,
ἴ τις δίχα τõν κυρίον
ἀνύγι αὐτό +

'+ Tomb belonging to the house of ascetics (askiterion) of the God-Bearer. May everyone who opens it, without the consent of the owners, be cursed. +'

Text: I. Anazarbos, no. 646.

History

Evidence ID

E01078

Saint Name

Mary, Mother of Christ : S00033

Saint Name in Source

Θεοτόκος

Type of Evidence

Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions

Language

  • Greek

Evidence not before

500

Evidence not after

1300

Activity not before

500

Activity not after

1300

Place of Evidence - Region

Asia Minor

Place of Evidence - City, village, etc

Anazarba

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

Anazarba Nicomedia Νικομήδεια Nikomēdeia Izmit Πραίνετος Prainetos Nicomedia

Cult activities - Places

Cult building - monastic

Cult activities - Places Named after Saint

  • Monastery

Source

Engraved on a wall in a 5 m deep and 2 m wide niche in the rock-face over the theatre at Anazabra. Seen and copied by Adolf Wilhelm in the spring of 1891.

Discussion

The inscription labels a tomb owned by a house of ascetics (asketerion) of Mary, venerated here as the God-Bearer. Dating: 6th c. or later (based on the style of lettering, the spelling and syntax).

Bibliography

Edition: Die Inschriften von Anazarbos und Umgebung, no. 646. Heberdey, R., Wilhelm, A., Kiepert H., Reisen in Kilikien (Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Classe, Bd. 44, Abh. 6, Vienna: In Commission bei C. Gerold's Sohn, 1896), no. 93. Further reading: Mietke, G., "Monumentalisierung christilcher Heiliger in Kilikien in frühbyzantinischer Zeit", Olba 17 (2009), 120.

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