Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Scythopolis-Beth Shean, Monastery of Lady Mary, 567 CE. Mosaic. Funerary.

Mosaic Tesserae

Palimpsest

Crosses At the beginning and maybe at the end of the text.

567 CE Jordan Valley Scythopolis-Beth Shean Monastery of Lady Mary On a tomb in the northeastern corner of the chapel

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Initial Entry Edited Changed settlement from Beth Shean to Scythopolis-Beth Shean Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames Corrected bibliographic reference adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value. corrected display of crosses

+ΟΠΟỊΕϹΤΙΝΤΟϹΤΕΦΑΝWϹΤΑΥΡΙΝ ΕΚΙΚΕΙΤΕΤΟΠΕΛΛΑΙΚΟΝΤΟΥ ϹΤΟΜΑΤΟϹΤΟΥΜΝΗΜΙΟΥ ΕΧWΝΚΡΙΚΕΙΑΕΝΘΑΚΑΤΕΘΕΙΚΑ ΤΗΝΦΙΛΟΧΝΜΟΥΑΔΕΛΦΗΝ ΓΕWΡΓΙΑΝΕΓWΗΛΙΑϹΕΛΑΧΙΣΤ ΕΛΕΕΙΘΥΕΝΚΛΗϹΤΟϹΑΝΑΙΠΑ ΕΙΔΕΜΗΝΗΜΑΙW ΤΕΤΑΡΤΗ∙Ι∙ΝΔΙΚΤΙΟΝΟϹ ΠΕΝΤΕΚΑΤΗϹ ΗΜΕΡΑΔΕΗΝΕϹW ΠΕΝΤΗΚΟϹΤ

+ Ὅποι ἔστιν τὸ στεφανωσταύριον ἐκεῖ κεῖταικεῖτε τὸ πελλαικὸν τοῦ στόματος τοῦ μνημείου ἔχονἔχων κρικεῖα. Ἔνθα κατέθηκακατέθεικα τὴν φιλόχριστόν μου ἀδελφὴν Γεωργίαν ἐγὼ Ἠλίας, ἐλάχιστος ἐλέει Θεοῦ ἐνκλειστόςἐνκληστός. ἈνεπάηἈναιπάει δέ μηνὶμηνη Μαίῳ τετάρτῃ ἰνδικτιῶνοςἰνδικτιονος πεντεκαιδεκάτης, ἠμέρα δὲ ἦν τῆς μεσοπεντηκοστῆςμεσωπεντηκοστῆς +

Where the wreathed cross is, there lies the lid of the mouth of the tomb, which has rings. There have I laid my Christ-loving sister Georgia, I, Elias, by the mercy of God a most lowly recluse. She died on the fourth day in the month of May of the fifteenth indiction; and it was the day of mid-Pentecost.

The inscription is composed of two parts. The original text is interrupted in the middle of l. 7, and from this point on it is substituted by a new, roughly executed inscription. Traces of the original continuation are still visible at the beginning of ll. 8-12. The mosaic may have been broken when the tomb was opened for the a new burial. The script in the first half is identical to that of the other burial inscription (Bshe0024), indicating that both were executed at the same time. In the second part the letters are irregular and some cursive shapes appear: pi and mu and especially a eta with a sloping middle bar.

Ὅποι ἔστιν τὸ στεφανωσταύριον ἐκεῖ κεῖταικεῖτε τὸ πελλαικὸν τοῦ στόματος τοῦ μνημείου ἔχονἔχων κρικεῖα. Ἔνθα κατέθηκακατέθεικα τὴν φιλόχριστόν μου ἀδελφὴν Γεωργίαν ἐγὼ Ἠλίας, ἐλάχιστος ἐλέει Θεοῦ ἐνκλειστόςἐνκληστός. ἈνεπάηἈναιπάει δέ μηνὶμηνη Μαίῳ τετάρτῃ ἰνδικτιῶνοςἰνδικτιονος πεντεκαιδεκάτης, ἠμέρα δὲ ἦν τῆς μεσοπεντηκοστῆςμεσωπεντηκοστῆς

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