Greek inscription recording a request for help addressed to unnamed martyrs, found in Hisaralan (Hellespontus, north-west Asia Minor). Probably late antique (5th/8th c.).
Evidence ID
E00735
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions - Formal inscriptions (stone, mosaic, etc.)
ἅγιοι μ(άρ)τ(υ)ρ(ες)
βοηθεῖτε
τῇ δούλῃ
ὑμῶν Ἀμμίᾳ
κ(αὶ) τῷ δούλῳ
ὑμῶν
Τροφίμῳ
1. μ(άρ)τ(υ)ρ(ες) – a monogram
'Holy martyrs, help your servant Ammia and your servant Trophimos!'
Text: Robert 1937, 213 note 3.
Non Liturgical ActivityWomen
Prayer/supplication/invocation
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesWomen
Other lay individuals/ people
Source
Inscription on a marble column: H. 0.75 m; diameter 0.29 m. The text was written inside a rectangular frame: H. 0.225 m; W. 0.2 m.Discussion
This is a simple invocation of unnamed martyrs written by Ammia and Trophimos, otherwise unattested persons. Louis Robert supposes that the martyrs were patrons of a local sanctuary. François Halkin proposed that they could be the *Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (ob. early 4th c.) or the *Forty-Two Martyrs of Amorion but he based this on an erroneous reading of the first line. He did not recognise the monogram (which is not visible in the published photograph), and thought that it was a letter Μ which he considered as the numeral 40.Bibliography
Edition:Robert, L., Études Anatoliennes. Recherches sur les inscriptions grecques de l'Asie-Mineure (Paris: De Boccard, 1937), 213, n. 3
Further Reading:
Destephen, S., "Martyrs locaux et cultes civiques en Asie Mineure", in: J.C. Caillet, S. Destephen, B. Dumézil, H. Inglebert, Des dieux civiques aux saints patrons (IVe-VIIe siècle) (Paris: éditions A. & J. Picard, 2015), 88.
Halkin, F., "Bulletin des publications hagiographiques", Analecta Bollandiana 59 (1941), 367-368.
Reference works:
Bulletin épigraphique (1941), 122b.
Record Created By
Pawel Nowakowski
Date of Entry
30/09/2015
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00060 | Martyrs, unnamed or name lost | μάρτυρες | Certain |
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