irbi0001Inscriptions of Israel/Palestineirbi0001 Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Irbd 0001

Irbid, 535 CE. Mosaic. Dedicatory.

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Tabula ansata with red, brown, and black tesselae Containing inscription Red cross Beginning of inscription Horizontal strokes Above numerals

535 CE Jordan Irbid Al-Husn Al-Husn church

Jordan Museum, inv. IR 36 Plaque Slab Panel Tablet Block Building Stone Chancel Screen Column Post Capital Flagstone Architectural Fragment Niche Arch Architrave Arcosolium Room / Interior Space Door Lintel Threshold Ceiling Wall Floor Pavement Revetment Window Hall Ledge Fresco Altar Ossuary Sarcophagus Tomb Tombstone Kokh Stele Ceramic Vessel Amphora Bowl Jar Jug Handle Lid Potsherd Weight Sundial Mosaic Ostrakon Boundary Marker Milestone Marker Monument Statue Base Pedestal Statue Protome Rock Ring Gem Amulet Seal Stamp Unidentifiable Object Other Object Stone Marble Limestone Kurkar Granite Tufa Other Stone Unknown Stone Clay Metal Plaster Glass Wood Bone Other Material Unknown Material Funerary --Funerary (Epitaph) --Funerary (Malediction) Dedicatory --Votive --Offering --Imperial Dedication Acclamation Honorific --Honorific (Other) Building Legal Receipt Place Marker --Boundary Marker --Milestone Magic --Apotropaic --Malediction Verse Prayer Invocation Prophecy Label --Label (Sundial) --Label (Ownership) --Label (Token) --Label (Weight) --Label (Weapon) Financial Graffiti Abecedary Calendar Other Text Unknown Text Complete --Complete but broken --Complete and intact Single Fragment Multiple Fragments --Contiguous Fragments --Non-Contiguous Fragments Impressed --Inscribed -- --Chiseled -- -- Etched (with a sharp point) -- -- Carved --In Troughs --In Points (chasing) --Other Protruding --Applied --Molded --In Relief (cut) --In Points (repouss) Painted --With Brush --With Other Inset --Mosaic --Inlaid Stamped --Impressed --In Relief Christian Jewish Other Unknown Initial Entry edits

+ Θείᾳ χάριτι ἐπὶ τοῦ ὁσιωτάτου Ἰωάαννου ἀρχιεπισκόπου σπουδῇ Κυριακοῦ θεοσεβεστάτου πρεσβυτέρου καὶ παραμοναρίου ἐψηφώθη ὁ ναὸς οὗτος μηνὶ Ἀρτεμησίου α᾿ χρονοῖς ιγ᾿ τοῦ υλ᾿τους Ἠλὶας στρατηγὸς

By divine grace, under the most pious archbishop John, by the zeal of the pious priest and paramonarios Kyriakos, this church was paved with mosaics, on the 1st of the month Artemisios, in the time of the 13th indiction, in the year 430; Elias, Strat-.

possible endings for the last word are strategos (magister militum), strateles (magister militum), or stratiotes (soldier)

Θείᾳ χάριτι ἐπὶ τοῦ ὁσιωτάτου Ἰωάαννου ἀρχιεπισκόπου σπουδῇ Κυριακοῦ θεοσεβεστάτου πρεσβυτέρου καὶ παραμοναρίου ἐψηφώθη ναὸς οὗτος μηνὶ Ἀρτεμησίου α᾿ χρονοῖς ιγ᾿ τοῦ υλ᾿ τους Ἠλὶας στρατηγὸς

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