Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Khirbet el-Merd, Fifth to sixth century CE. Slab. Graffiti.

Cut off at the top, at the bottom and on the right side

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Fifth to sixth century CE Judaea Khirbet el-Merd Kastellion Monastery

Found in a "tomb cave" on the upper edge of the rock of the tel of the Kastellion Monastery on Khirbet el-Merd.

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ΜΝΗϹΘΗΤΗ ΚΥΡΙΕ ΤΟΥΛΟΝ ϹΟΥ ΜΟΝΑΧΟΥΑ Ν ΡΑΩ ΤΗϹ ΜΟΝΗϹ

"Remember, O Lord, thy servant, the monk Andrew (from the Monastery?)."

The stone-graffito was found in the tomb-cave of the Kastellion Monastery which was founded on Khirbet el-Merd in 492 by St. Sabbas. The author indicates that the inscription includes numerous errors. He also notes that the first line of the graffito is a formula which appears in the Didache 10,5 as well as commonly in other Greek inscriptions and liturgies. The restoration of the last word of the inscription as the ligature "ΜΝΗ" is unclear.

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