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App. CHRISTIAN INSCRIPTIONS. 543

The inscription may be placed with great probability between 220 and
250 A. D. The formula 6i<ris with the genitive of the owner's name is
common in Chr. epitaphs ; but it is only with great doubt that this inscr.
can be classed among them.

410. Printed by Dr. Judeieh Aih. Mitth. 1890 p. 258.
v el be rives elo-iv Kaivfj bo^rj Tpe[qbop.evoi

TOVTOVS blS XP*I 7rePt TtptoTLtoV

e]o-0ai Ka.Ta\veTW(rav r-qv ajx<$>L<r(3riTri\<nv

kovtos t) /xdrai[a] qbiXov KE • • HNHi

MAirrHEN........KAI0YMHAAIAIA

NIOYTOYI Kal TrpoKarapxeT03[o-]av I

I 6ppoyp.evovs 0-ep.vorepovs Trap' eavr[Qv

kiv ovviv tovs irpbs d£iay rtfXTjcret iirjb[els

\r] (j>aivovro[s.
This fragment is tantalizing. It seems, as Dr. Judeieh remarks, to
refer to quarrels between Christians and heathen. But it is impossible
to make any attempt to understand it, until some more accurate informa-
tion is given about the size and state of the stone1.

410 bis. Laodiceia. Transcribed by M. J. Laurent from Cod. Vat.
Lat. 9072 p. 391, where Marini2 gives it in cursive (the words divided
but unaccented), without any statement as to how it came into his
possession.

Evyivios [father's name evOdbe KeKoip.r\Tai ?, 6 yqpas ttjvI
dvyaripa 'lovXCov Neo-ropiavov <t>\aviavriv [ttjv apicrTT]v (or name),
Xpovov be jipaxw 3 (!) biarpLxj/as ev Tj) AaobiKeu>v -no\ei • • •
Kal (3ov\rj(Tei tov iravroKpaTopos Qeov e-nio-KOTios KaracrTaOeis,
Kal elicocn irevre oAois eTecrw rijv e-nivKO-n^v [5ioiK?/'o-as ?,
Kal itacrav tt)v eKK\i]aiav dvoiKobo^o-as otto dep.e\iciiv,
Kai -navTa tov irepi avTr\v Koapov ctto5>v k<zi TrpocrTO&v
Kal £<x>ypa<pi5iv koX jievrrjcreoiv aKevapiov Kal irpoTrv\ov
Kai ira<n tois \ido£uois epyois Kal iraa&v dira$;air\5>s KaTaardcrea>v.
This remarkable inscr. opens up many difficulties. As to origin, it may be
presumed that Marini, like Le Quien, owes it ultimately to Jebb, and that

1 Dr. Judeieh does not state whether lection of Chr. inscr., see De Rossi

we have the first line or the last line, Inscr. Chr. TJrb. Rom. I pp. xxxi* ff.

or whether there is any clue to the See above, p. 513, where my thanks for

length of the lines, or whether the M. Laurent's scholarly liberality in im-

stone is broken right and left, or is parting his important discovery are

merely illegible in part. expressed.

s

On Marini's great unpublished col- s Compare no. 677.