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App. CHRISTIAN INSCRIPTIONS. 545
and CIGr 8704 (Sparta), eleventh century, Kaibel 2319 (Venice), late.
The porticoes adjoining and forming a frontage to the church were
evidently an important feature. This is not the place to discuss the
architectural evidence with regard to a fourth century church, nor has
the writer the requisite knowledge. The unknown word fievrriaeav is
perhaps miscopied. After Trporrv^ov perhaps the preposition avv has
been omitted.
Eusebius's contemporary description of the great church at Antioch,
standing within a peribolos with propylon, and surrounded by stoai,
//. E. X 4, should be compared with this inscr.
411. Wagener in Rev. de l'instruction publ. en Belgique, Nouv. Serie
XI pp. 1 f. (Fhilologus XXXII p. 379).
Tlorr\iov Ai/U'ou r\vK<j)v[os ---------------------------- 'A/x ?]-
^taz/oC rod 2e\evKov" iv r\ Kr\hev6r\o~ovTai avrbs kcu ywi; avrov [.......]
kcu ra reKva avr&v' erepcu be ovbevi e^earai Krjbevdfjvai' Karebco-
K€v be [ko]1 rfj crepvordrrj npoebpia rCov -nopqbvpafiafpoiv areqba[vui]-
tlkov brjv. biaKoaia Trpbs rb blbocrOai [cnrb] r&v ro'/caw eKaa\ri^\
NMZ ev tji eoprfj rS>v 'AQupuiv' 6p.oiu><i Karekirrev kch tu avve-
bpiu) ra>v KaipobaiTL<rTa>v <TTe<pav[<D}ru<ov br\v. p eKarov rrevr/jKovra dir[o
[a line lost] ev ry eoprfj Hevrr}Ko[crrrjs.
A fresh copy of this important inscription is much to be desired;
Wagener's copies are not always wholly satisfactory. We can however
see with certainty that this inscr. and no. 412 are either Jewish or
Christian. Looking at no. 411 alone, we should without hesitation call
it Jewish; but, when we take no. 412 into consideration, I think we must
come to a different conclusion.
412. (R. 1887). Text and commentary under no. 28 A, B : the suspicion
expressed there that this inscr. is Chr. seems confirmed by no. 411, which
was unknown to me when I was engaged on vol. I. The feasts of Azyma
and Pentecost were common to Jews and Christians; but the epyaaia
6pejxp.ari.Krj is more likely to be Chr. The Jews might be expected to
maintain an Orphanage for their own nationality; but this epyavia seems
to have a wider scope, reaching to all foundlings (dpeppara). Tertullian
mentions among the purposes to which church funds were devoted, ' the
feeding and the burying of the poor, and of boys and girls that have lost
their property and their parents V It is also certain that the charity of
1 Apol. 39 egenis alendis humandisque, eorfiri airoriderai, kcu avros imKovpel 6p-
etpueris ac puellis re ac parentibus desti- qbavois re koi x'/pa'? ktA. ; Gypr. Ep. 60
tutis. Compare Justin Mart. Apol. I inter ceteros qui Ecclesiae alimentis sus-
sub fin. to o-vXkty6p.(vov irapci to rtpo- tinentur.
VOL. I. PT. II. 0
and CIGr 8704 (Sparta), eleventh century, Kaibel 2319 (Venice), late.
The porticoes adjoining and forming a frontage to the church were
evidently an important feature. This is not the place to discuss the
architectural evidence with regard to a fourth century church, nor has
the writer the requisite knowledge. The unknown word fievrriaeav is
perhaps miscopied. After Trporrv^ov perhaps the preposition avv has
been omitted.
Eusebius's contemporary description of the great church at Antioch,
standing within a peribolos with propylon, and surrounded by stoai,
//. E. X 4, should be compared with this inscr.
411. Wagener in Rev. de l'instruction publ. en Belgique, Nouv. Serie
XI pp. 1 f. (Fhilologus XXXII p. 379).
Tlorr\iov Ai/U'ou r\vK<j)v[os ---------------------------- 'A/x ?]-
^taz/oC rod 2e\evKov" iv r\ Kr\hev6r\o~ovTai avrbs kcu ywi; avrov [.......]
kcu ra reKva avr&v' erepcu be ovbevi e^earai Krjbevdfjvai' Karebco-
K€v be [ko]1 rfj crepvordrrj npoebpia rCov -nopqbvpafiafpoiv areqba[vui]-
tlkov brjv. biaKoaia Trpbs rb blbocrOai [cnrb] r&v ro'/caw eKaa\ri^\
NMZ ev tji eoprfj rS>v 'AQupuiv' 6p.oiu><i Karekirrev kch tu avve-
bpiu) ra>v KaipobaiTL<rTa>v <TTe<pav[<D}ru<ov br\v. p eKarov rrevr/jKovra dir[o
[a line lost] ev ry eoprfj Hevrr}Ko[crrrjs.
A fresh copy of this important inscription is much to be desired;
Wagener's copies are not always wholly satisfactory. We can however
see with certainty that this inscr. and no. 412 are either Jewish or
Christian. Looking at no. 411 alone, we should without hesitation call
it Jewish; but, when we take no. 412 into consideration, I think we must
come to a different conclusion.
412. (R. 1887). Text and commentary under no. 28 A, B : the suspicion
expressed there that this inscr. is Chr. seems confirmed by no. 411, which
was unknown to me when I was engaged on vol. I. The feasts of Azyma
and Pentecost were common to Jews and Christians; but the epyaaia
6pejxp.ari.Krj is more likely to be Chr. The Jews might be expected to
maintain an Orphanage for their own nationality; but this epyavia seems
to have a wider scope, reaching to all foundlings (dpeppara). Tertullian
mentions among the purposes to which church funds were devoted, ' the
feeding and the burying of the poor, and of boys and girls that have lost
their property and their parents V It is also certain that the charity of
1 Apol. 39 egenis alendis humandisque, eorfiri airoriderai, kcu avros imKovpel 6p-
etpueris ac puellis re ac parentibus desti- qbavois re koi x'/pa'? ktA. ; Gypr. Ep. 60
tutis. Compare Justin Mart. Apol. I inter ceteros qui Ecclesiae alimentis sus-
sub fin. to o-vXkty6p.(vov irapci to rtpo- tinentur.
VOL. I. PT. II. 0