Greek inscription naming 'Saint *Thekla' (follower of the Apostle Paul, S00092). Found near Dorylaion (Phrygia, west central Asia Minor). Probably late antique.
Evidence ID
E00914
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions - Inscribed architectural elements
ἁγία Θέ-
κλα
Δиαμ-
ολα
'Saint Thekla // (- - -)'
Text: Kirchhoff 1861, 186, no. 29.
Cult Places
Cult building - independent (church)
Non Liturgical ActivityPrayer/supplication/invocation
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesOther lay individuals/ people
Source
Two inscriptions written next to each other on a column, found near a road at Kaymaz near Dorylaion (Phrygia, central Asia Minor). The column may originally have stood in a church.Discussion
The first part of the inscription, name Thekla, was perhaps an invocation or a statement that Thekla was the patron of the sanctuary, where the column was originally located. The meaning of the second part is not clear. It may be the name of a supplicant (Damolas, Molas?), perhaps preceded by the preposition διὰ, e.g. διὰ Μολᾶ (by Molas). For the name Molas, see Tituli Asiae Minoris I 32. In the Inscriptiones Christianae Graecae database Ulrich Huttner argues that the second word is written from right to left: Μανδαλος, which stands for the name of a nearby city, Mantalos.Bibliography
Edition:Kirchhoff, A., "Inscriptiones Asianae Graecae et Latinae a Mordtmanno descriptae", Annali dell'Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica 33 (1861), 186, no. 29.
Inscriptiones Christianae Graecae database, no. 1438: http://www.epigraph.topoi.org/ica/icamainapp/inscription/show/1438
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), 77, note 53; 102.
Record Created By
Pawel Nowakowski
Date of Entry
30/11/2015
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00092 | Thekla, follower of the Apostle Paul | Θέκλα | Certain |
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