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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Greek inscription with an invocation of *Peter (the Apostle, S00036), incised on a bowl found in the ruins of a gymnasium in Pergamon (province of Asia, north-west Asia Minor). Probably late antique (5th-8th c.).

Evidence ID

E00737

Type of Evidence

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

ἅγιε Πέτ[ρε], βοήθι ΕΙΕΑΝ

1. βοηθειε αν = βοήθοῖς ἄν or βοήθει ἄν Lampakis, ΕΙΕΑΝ = Εἰοάν(νῃ) = Ἰωάν(νῃ) Dörpfeld
apud Hepding Halkin

'Saint Pet[er], help Ioan(nes?)'

Text: Hepding 1910, no. 72.

Non Liturgical Activity

Prayer/supplication/invocation

Protagonists in Cult and Narratives

Other lay individuals/ people

Source

On a rough trachyte bowl, found in the ruins of the 'Gymnasium of the νέοι' in 1905 or 1906. Described as μαρμαρίνη πλάξ by Georgios Lampakis. H. 0.19 m; W. 0.41 m.

Discussion

Invocations of this kind are very common, and cannot be precisely dated.

Bibliography

Edition:
Lampakis, G., Οἱ ἑπτὰ ἀστέρες τῆς ἀποκαλύψεως ἤτοι ἱστορία, ἐρείπια, μνημεϊα καὶ νῦν κατάστασις τῶν ἑπτὰ ἐκκλησίων τῆς Ἀσίας (Athens: , 1909), 280

Hepding, H., "Die Arbeiten zu Pergamon 1908-1909 II. Die Inschriften",
Athenische Mitteilungen 35 (1910), no. 72

Further Reading:
Halkin, F., "Inscriptions grecques relatives à l'hagiographie, IX, Asie Mineure", Analecta Bollandiana 71 (1953), 77


Record Created By

Pawel Nowakowski

Date of Entry

30/09/2015

Related Saint Records
IDNameName in SourceIdentity
S00036Peter, the ApostleΠέτροςCertain


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