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E01671: Greek dedicatory inscription with probably an invocation of *Mary (Mother of Christ, S00033). Found at Šeiḥ Sleimān/Shekh Slēmân in the Limestone Massif (north Syria, between Antioch-on-the-Orontes and Beroia/Aleppo). Dated 519/520.

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posted on 2016-06-27, 00:00 authored by pnowakowski

ἔτους ηξφ΄ μή(τηρ) θε(οῦ) σόσον

'In the year 568. O Mother of God, save (me/us)!'

Text: Jarry 1967, no. 88.

History

Evidence ID

E01671

Saint Name

Mary, Mother of Christ : S00033

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

519

Evidence not after

520

Activity not before

519

Activity not after

520

Place of Evidence - Region

Syria with Phoenicia Syria with Phoenicia Syria with Phoenicia

Place of Evidence - City, village, etc

Antioch on the Orontes Šeiḥ Sleimān/Shekh Slēmân Beroia

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

Antioch on the Orontes Thabbora Thabbora Šeiḥ Sleimān/Shekh Slēmân Thabbora Thabbora Beroia Thabbora Thabbora

Cult activities - Places

Cult building - independent (church)

Cult activities - Non Liturgical Practices and Customs

Prayer/supplication/invocation

Source

A stone block. H. 0.3 m; W. 0.74 m; Th. 0.18 m; letter height 0.06 m. Found by Georges Tchalenko in 1963 (copy, photograph, squeeze). First published by Jacques Jarry in 1967, with permission of the Institut français de Beyrouth.

Discussion

If Jarry's reading is correct, this might be the dedicatory inscription of an unnamed structure, rather than simply a dated invocation. It is possible that the stone was once a lintel of this building. Dating: Jacques Jarry supposes that the date, the year 568, was calculated according to the era of Antioch (= the Caesarian era), which corresponds to AD 519/520.

Bibliography

Edition: Jarry, J., "Inscriptions arabes, syriaques et grecques du massif du Bélus en Syrie du nord [avec 42 planches]", Annales islamologiques 7 (1967), no. 88. For photographs from the site, see: Emma Loosley, “Sheikh Sulaiman C5th church,” Architecture and Asceticism, accessed August 12, 2016, http://architectureandasceticism.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/168 Emma Loosley, “Sheikh Sulaiman C6th church,” Architecture and Asceticism, accessed August 12, 2016, http://architectureandasceticism.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/167 Emma Loosley, “Sheikh Sulaiman church dated 602,” Architecture and Asceticism, accessed August 12, 2016, http://architectureandasceticism.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/166

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