Text record no. 1

Title:Greek inscription on a reliquary mentioning a marble mason (provenance unknown, now in Jerusalem)
Site name:Origin unknown, now in Jerusalem, Bible Land Museum
Province:Palaestina Prima
Country:Israel
Original text:Reliquary's front face: + θήκη τοῦ ἁγίου Σεργί[ου]· ὑπὲρ σωτηρίας Ἀνύσωνος τοῦ φιλοχρίστου τοῦ ποι<ή>σαντος Reliquary's narrow face: [μνήσθητι Κ(ύρι)ε (?) Μαρί]ας κ(αὶ) Δανιὴλ [κ(αὶ) - - - κ(αὶ) Ἀθα]νασίας κ(αὶ) Σεργίου κ(αὶ) Πέτρου τοῦ μαρμαραρίου ̣κ(αὶ) Ἀναί[α] [3. Ἀναί[α] or Ἀνά̣ν[ου] Di Segni]
Translation:'+ Reliquary (theke) of Saint Sergios. As a vow for the salvation of Anyson, the Christ-loving, who made it (sc. made the vow?).' '[Remember, O Lord,] Maria, and Daniel, [and - - - and] Athanasia, and Sergios, and Petros the marble-mason (marmararios), and Anaias (?)!'
Literary source:Inscription
Edition:Di Degni 2007, 132–133, no. 75 = SEG 57, 1860.
Bibliography:Di Segni, L. (ed.), in: J. Goodnick Westenholz (ed.), Three Faces of Monotheism (Jerusalem, 2007), 132-133, no. 75. Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 57, 1860. Cult of Saints Database, E02938 – http://csla.history.ox.ac.uk/record.php?recid=E02938
Context:church, artisan
Dating:501 - 700 AD
Record author:Paweł Nowakowski
Created at:5/15/2023, 8:30:16 PM
Last modified at:7/25/2024, 8:45:05 PM