Evidence ID
E01038
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions
+ σοματοθήκι Λουκᾶ πρε[σ-]
βυ(τέρου) τοῦ ἁγ(ίου) Ἰουάνου
'+ Sarcophagus of Loukas, presbyter (of the church) of Saint John.'
Text: MAMA III, no. 88.
Cult Places
Cult building - independent (church)
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesEcclesiastics - lesser clergy
Source
The lid of a sarcophagus in an arcosolium grave. Found on the eastern slope of the so-called Tomb Valley (Nord E71) near Uzuncaburç (ancient Diokaisareia). Letter height 0.06-0.08 m. Recorded in 1925; revisited by an international expedition led by Detlev Wannagat and Kai Trampedach between 2004 and 2006.Discussion
The inscription is the epitaph for a presbyter of a church dedicated to a Saint John. Though the identity of the patron saint is not specified, he is likely to have been John the Baptist, as his cult was a much more popular in eastern Asia Minor than that of John the Evangelist.Dating: probably 6th c., based on the form of the letters.
Bibliography
Edition:Linnemann, J.C., Die Nekropolen von Diokaisareia (Diokaisareia in Kilikien 3, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013), 132.
Hagel, St., Tomaschitz, K., (eds.), Repertorium der westkilikischen Inschriften (Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 265, Ergänzungsbände zu den Tituli Asiae Minoris 22, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1998), no. OlD 66.
Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua III, no. 88.
Further reading:
Mietke, G., "Monumentalisierung christilcher Heiliger in Kilikien in frühbyzantinischer Zeit", Olba 17 (2009), 121.
Record Created By
Pawel Nowakowski
Date of Entry
31/12/2015
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00020 | John the Baptist | Ἰουάνης | Uncertain | S00042 | John, the Apostle and Evangelist | Ἰουάνης | Uncertain |
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