E01187: Fragmentary Greek inscription with an invocation of *Michael (the Archangel, S00181). Found at Mytilini (Samos, the Aegean Islands). Probably late antique or middle Byzantine.

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posted on 2016-03-12, 00:00 authored by pnowakowski

Μιχαήλ, μ[νήσθητι - - -]

'Michael, [remember - - -]'

Text: IG XII 6,2, no. 950.

History

Evidence ID

E01187

Saint Name

Michael, the Archangel : S00181

Saint Name in Source

Μιχαήλ

Related Saint Records

https://oxford.figshare.com/articles/Michael_the_Archangel/13729612

Type of Evidence

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

Language

Greek

Evidence not before

400

Evidence not after

1300

Activity not before

400

Activity not after

1300

Place of Evidence - Region

Aegean islands and Cyprus Aegean islands and Cyprus

Place of Evidence - City, village, etc

Samos Mytilini

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

Samos Salamis Σαλαμίς Salamis Salamis Farmagusta Far Κωνσταντία Konstantia Constantia Mytilini Salamis Σαλαμίς Salamis Salamis Farmagusta Far Κωνσταντία Konstantia Constantia

Cult activities - Non Liturgical Practices and Customs

Prayer/supplication/invocation

Source

A plaque, broken and lost on the right-hand side. H. 0.3 m; W. 0.395 m; Th. 0.02 m. Seen and copied by Ludwig Bürchner. When recorded, it was kept in a household in the village of Mytilini.

Discussion

The inscription is an invocation of Michael the Archangel. Klaus Hallof, the editor of Inscriptiones Graecae XII 6,2, placed it among 'Byzantine' inscriptions, but without a photograph, we cannot determine, whether it is of late antique or of middle Byzantine date. Described as an 'epitaph' by the editors of Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum.

Bibliography

Edition: Inscriptiones Graecae XII 6,2, no. 950. Reference works: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 53, 877.

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