E01485: A bronze medallion with a Greek inscription mentioning a hospice for pilgrims, named after *Sergios (soldier and martyr of Rusafa, S00023). Found in Rusafa-Sergioupolis (northeast Syria/Euphratesia). Probably late antique.

A bronze medallion, found in Rusafa, at the site of Basilica B (see: E01462) (diameter 2.8 cm; 4 cm with extensions; Th. c. 0.1 cm). First published by Johannes Kollwitz in 1963, who identified it as the lid of an enkolpion (a small casket, often housing a relic, worn round the neck and resting on the chest). The object was independently published by Hermann Harrauer in 1992, who was unaware of Kollwitz's publication (see also the comments by Denis Feissel and Pierre-Louis Gatier in Bulletin épigraphique (1993), 617).

The medallion bears the following inscription:

Α + Ω
τοῦ ἐκκλ(ησιαστικοῦ)
ξένωνος
τοῦ ἁγίου
Σεργίου

3. ξένωνος Feissel and Gatier, Ζένωνος Harrauer Kollwitz || 2. ἐκκλ(ησιάρχου?) Diethart

'Α + Ω. Of the eccl(esiastical) hospice of Saint Sergios'

Text: BE (1963), 617.