Evidence ID
E02682
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions - Formal inscriptions (stone, mosaic, etc.)
+ ..ρα
Μαρία,
[ἅ]γιος Μιχαήλ
'+ [- - -] Mary, Saint Michael!'
Text: Waddington 1870, no. 2263.
Non Liturgical Activity
Prayer/supplication/invocation
Source
Reportedly framed by a large rectangle or a tabula ansata. There is no published description. Seen by William Waddington in the 1860s, and first published by him 1870 with virtually no comments. The inscription is scheduled for re-redition in the sixteenth volume of Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie, under no. 906.Discussion
The inscription invokes Mary (if this is not a donor's name, e.g. ̣Κ̣υρὰ | Μαρία/'Kyra Maria') and certainly the Archangel Michael. We do not know if the Archangel *Gabriel was also mentioned, but this is plausible, as the three figures often occur together.Dating: there is no reliable way to date the text, but in this region invocations of Mary and Michael are characteristic of the 6th and 7th centuries.
Bibliography
Edition:IGLS 16, no. 906 (forthcoming).
Waddington, W.H., Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie (Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs, 1870), no. 2263.
Images
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Waddington's transcription. From: LBW, 524.
Record Created By
Paweł Nowakowski
Date of Entry
10/04/2017
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00033 | Mary, Mother of Christ | Μαρία | Certain | S00181 | Michael, the Archangel | Μιχαήλ | Certain |
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