Evidence ID
E00841
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions - Formal inscriptions (stone, mosaic, etc.)
+ ὁ θ(εὸ)ς τõν ἁγί-
ον Ἀκυλίνου (καὶ) Μα-
ξίμου, μνήσθητι Κυ-
ριακοῦ πρεσβ(υτέρου) καὶ Κυ-
ριακοῦ (καὶ) Γεωργί-
ου (καὶ) Μαρίας τ+õν
κτισάντον
'+ O God of saints Aquilinus and Maximus, remember Kyriakos the elder (or the presbyter?) and Kyriakos and Georgios and Maria, the founders!'
Text: MAMA VI, no. 171.
Cult PlacesEcclesiastics - lesser clergy
Cult building - unspecified
Non Liturgical ActivityPrayer/supplication/invocation
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesEcclesiastics - lesser clergy
Other lay individuals/ people
Women
Source
White marble slab, reused in the wall of a house: H. 0.43 m; W. 0.50 m; Th. 0.12 m. Found in Davas in the area of ancient Tabai.Discussion
The inscription records an invocation of the God of saints Akylinos and Maximos, by founders of an unspecified structure, perhaps a church or a chapel of the two saints.The identity of these saints is uncertain. A certain Aquilinus is mentioned as a martyr of Isauria together with Victorianus in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum (16 May: E04816). Maximos may be the merchant and voluntary martyr of Ephesos (see Simonetti 1955, 85-87) or a martyr in Durostorion in Moesia (north-western Asia Minor), mentioned together with Dadas and Quintilianus (see BHG 1238).
A painting labelled ὁ ἅγιος Ἀκυλ[- - -] is preserved on an arch at the entrance to the so-called sacello-mausoleo of the harbor quarter's church at Alakişla near Ceramus. The editors, Vincenzo Ruggieri and Franco Giordano, restore the name as Ἀκύλ[ας] or Ἀκυλῖνα, whilst Thomas Corsten in the comments in the SEG suggests the completion Ἀκυλῖνος. It is possible that this is the martyr mentioned in our inscription. See Ruggieri & Giordano 2003, 215 and the SEG 53, 1187.
Dating: Probably 6th-7th c., based on similar invocations of the God of saints.
Bibliography
Edition:Robert, J., Robert, L., La Carie. Histoire et géographie historique, avec le recueil des inscriptions antiques, vol. 2: Le plateau de Tabai et ses environs (Paris: Librairie d'Amerique et d'Orient, Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1954), no. 36.
Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua VI, no. 171.
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., "Inscriptions grecques relatives à l'hagiographie, IX, Asie Mineure", Analecta Bollandiana 71 (1953), 85-86.
BE (1939), 359.
Ruggieri, V., Giordano, F. (eds.), Il golfo di Keramos: dal tardo antico al medioevo bizantino (Soveria Mannelli (Catanzaro): Rubbettino), 215.
Simonetti, M., Studi Agiografici (Rome: Signorelli, 1955), 85-87.
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 53, 1187.
Record Created By
Pawel Nowakowski
Date of Entry
06/11/2015
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00549 | Aquilinus/Akylinos and Victorianus, martyrs of Isauria | Ἀκυλῖνος | Uncertain | S00550 | Maximos, martyr of Ephesus | Μαξίμος | Uncertain | S00551 | Maximos, Dadas and Quintilianus, martyrs of Durostorum | Μαξίμος | Uncertain |
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