Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Bsaf 0001

Beit Safafa, 490 CE, 596 CE, or 701 CE. Mosaic. Dedicatory.

490 CE, 596 CE, or 701 CE Judaea Beit Safafa Small funerary chapel south-west of Jerusalem Western wall

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Initial Entry Edited (Date and Location of Origin, minor fixes) corrected transcription added more to commentary

+ Ἐγένετο τὸ πᾶν ἔργον τῆς ἀνεγέρσεως τοῦ οἴκου τῶν ἁγίων μαρτύρων ὑπὲρ σωτηρίας καὶ ἀντιλήμψεως Ϲαμουήλου καὶ τῶν αὐτοῦ διαφερόντων καὶ ὑπὲρ ἀναπαύσεως τῶν πολυβοητῶν ἐν μηνὶ Ἰουνίῳ ἰνδικτιῶνος ιδʹ ἔτους, ϛσʹ.

All the work of the erection of the house of the Holy Martyrs has been made for the salvation and succour of Samuel and his family and for the repose of the much celebrated, in the month of June, indiction 14, year 6200.

The dating system used is not clear. Proposed dates are June 490 (using the era of Diocletian), but that year fell on indiction 13. Other possibilities include 596 (using the Georgian era of the World) and 701 (an unknown dating system that might place the incarnation at 5500).

Ἐγένετο τὸ πᾶν ἔργον τῆς ἀνεγέρσεως τοῦ οἴκου τῶν ἁγίων μαρτύρων ὑπὲρ σωτηρίας καὶ ἀντιλήμψεως Ϲαμουήλου καὶ τῶν αὐτοῦ διαφερόντων καὶ ὑπὲρ ἀναπαύσεως τῶν πολυβοητῶν ἐν μηνὶ Ἰουνίῳ ἰνδικτιῶνος ιδʹ ἔτους, ϛσʹ

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