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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Lot, Old Testament patriarch and nephew of Abraham

Saint ID

S01234

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Old Testament saints
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E02524The so-called Madaba Mosaic Map shows a number of labelled places of the cult of saints in the Holy Land (mainly monasteries). Found in Madaba (Roman province of Arabia). Probably mid-6th c.
E02557Floor-mosaics with Greek dedicatory inscriptions commemorating the construction of a church dedicated to *Lot (Old Testament patriarch, S01234) and *Prokopios (probably the martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00118), invoking the God of these saints and the God of unnamed martyrs. Found at Khirbat al-Mukhayyat near Mount Nebo (Roman province of Arabia). Probably 558 or 573.
E02664Floor-mosaics with Greek inscriptions from the sanctuary (hagios topos) of *Lot (Old Testament patriarch, S01234) commemorating the restorations of mosaic pavements in 572/573, 605 or 607, and 692. Found at Deir 'Ain 'Abata near Zoara/modern Ghor es-Safi on the south-east shore of the Dead Sea (Jordan/Roman province of Palaestina III).
E02665Greek inscriptions on stone. Found in the sanctuary (hagios topos) of *Lot (Old Testament patriarch, S01234) at Deir 'Ain 'Abata near Zoara/modern Ghor es-Safi on the south-east shore of the Dead Sea (Jordan/Roman province of Palaestina III). Probably 6th-7th c.
E02666Greek and Arabic graffiti found at the entrance to the holy cave at the sanctuary (hagios topos) of *Lot (Old Testament Patriarch, S01234) at Deir 'Ain 'Abata near Zoara/modern Ghor es-Safi on the southeast shore of the Dead Sea (Jordan/Roman province of Palaestina III). Probably 6th-9th c.
E02782Painted Greek inscriptions (dipinti) found in the sanctuary of *Lot (Old Testament patriarch, S01234) at Deir 'Ain 'Abata near Zoara/modern Ghor es-Safi on the southeast shore of the Dead Sea (Jordan/Roman province of Palaestina III), one of which invokes 'saint Lot'. Probably 6th-7th c.
E03890The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 9 October *Abraham (Old Testament patriarch, S00275), *Lot (Old Testament patriarch and nephew of Abraham, S01234), and the deposition of the relics of *Andrew (the Apostle, S00288), and *Severianos (martyr of Sebaste under Licinius, S01689), *Stratonikos and Seleukia (husband and wife, martyrs in Scythia, S01690), and *Iouventinus (soldier and martyr under the emperor Julian, S00053).