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Ramsay, William Mitchell
The cities and bishoprics of Phrygia: being an essay of the local history of Phrygia from the earliest time to the Turkish conquest (Band 1,2): West and West-Central Phrygia — Oxford, 1897

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524 XII. CHRISTIAN INSCRIPTIONS OF S.W. PHRYGIA.

Z-qvohoTos Zrj\va)vos K.aTeo-K.e\y\\ao-evl to i]p(p\ov eaurco km, |T(j) vlio Zi]V(n\vi nal
rf) vvjj.\<pri Tarta' el ris | Se erepos em|)(eip?/o"i, eore | a^r<p Trpos | rov fleoV 2.

After this inscription was engraved, a daughter Maria died and was
buried in the same grave, and her name was added in small letters, nal
Tij Ovyarpl Mapiq, between the date and the first name. The date (a. d.
263-264) is engraved on the capital of the bomos, the name Zenodotos
on the shaft, and Maria was inserted on the lower moulding of the
capital. The name Maria, apart from the final formula, indicates a Chr.
origin for the inscr. Zenodotos Chr. no. 367, Tatia no. 355.

The date in this and many similar inscr. is not to be understood as the
day of death of the person buried in the tomb : it was only in the deve-
loped Chr. epitaph ic system that the day of death was engraved on the
tomb, see no. 454. Here it is the placing of the gravestone over the
heroon that is dated, according to the common pagan custom. The pre-
paration of a grave was an act of religion, p. 368; and the date of the
construction of the monument was a fact that might be of importance in
case of any dispute as to legal title and ownership.

The name Maria is not very common in early Christian epitaphs 3.
At Lugdunum in Gaul it belonged to a lady who died at the age of ) 00
probably in a.d. 552 (Le Blant I p. 102). It occurs also in no. 413 (see
note), 439, 440. Another, which is probably Chr., is published AEMit.
1894 p. 55 : ft was found at Bergula (Burgas) near Adrianople: [Ma]pla
Kvivra a(AA) . . r lirovt]o-a to [\o\t6plv crvv tt\ [orj^AAr/ ra ykvKv[Ta\T(o
avbp[i] pov Ev[prj]\(i> p.(v)e(as xapiv' [eX\pn he e£ 'T[ir]ias, [irpjiv (J)[\ott\os
[evjdahe Ketpi(at) aAi[. .]ros dAAa (pi\rj[6e]i.s vtto -navToiv [ir]apa tolovttjs
\j/v{xrj]s' X<"Pe trapoh'elra. At Aegina Mapia ?; kcu TlaTptKia Chr. (probably
fifth century) CIG 9302, Kaibel Ep. e Lapp. 4.-2,1, Bullet. Archeol. 1873
p. 249. At Tarsos Maptas tt}s "YVcm'a? Chr. LW 1507.

M. Le Blant remarks that names of Hebrew origin ai-e excessively
rare in the Christian inscriptions of the West. The commonest is
Susanna; and Martha, Jacoba, Samson, and Bevicca, occur. This
probably results from the dislike for the Jews, and the dread of being
taken for Jews 4. Jewish origin of this family may be suspected: that
Jews used 'this concluding formula with slight variations is clear from

1 Kareo-Keaoev, an engraver's error. nombre d'exemples connns du nom de

2 M. Paris gives the date TM; he MARIA. The name was Roman as
makes the inserted letters on the well as Hebrew; but where it occurs
moulding as large as those in the other in the Eastern provinces, it may be
lines (which conceals from him the confidently taken as the Hebrew name,
general sense); and he has crepov, em- 4 In the curious inscr. Orelli 2522,
xetpqiTth and Tvarpi where I have via. Beturia Paulla took the name Sara

3 M. Le Blant I p. 145 speaks du petit when she adopted Judaism.
 
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