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'Amman {Philadelphia).
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ordinarily filled with natives, who were constantly driven away and returned immediately.
The lower part of the stone is in the ground, here the floor of the house, which could
not be removed; in the centre the stone has a perpendicular hole cut like a half-cylinder.
Hight of stone above ground 23 cm.; total length 50 cm. Hight of letters 31/2 cm. —
Copy of the author.
Εκ ytXorftfxJiag Κοκκίπου [’Αγ]ρίππείν[α] Κοκκί'πο[υ ’ΐ(ησο)ύ]
Throztgh the generosity of Kokkipos, Agrippina the
daughter of Kokkipos (has dedicated) to feszcs Christ, the
son of God....
The reading ’ΐ(τ?σο)ύ’ Χρστ(ώ) was suggested by Prof.
Keil who also assisted me in the interpretation of the whole
document.
Ill. 7. — Scale—I : io.
(Χ)ρι(στώ) θ(εο)ί
uko . . .
1
p^lAGCix
KI ΠΟΥ
ΡΓΠΤΤ®
κοκ Kim
ABIGQYYIW
The name Κοκκιπος is very unusual. It would be natural to think of Cocceius, but
such a reading is forbidden by the letters on the stone. We must rather consider it
a Semitic name. In Arabic hur-
kitf or kurkub means “small bird,”
and this would be a very suitable
meaning for a personal name. A
number of names with similar
meanings are given by Professor
Noldeke in his Beitrage zur semi-
tischen Sprachwissenschaft, p. 85,
where he also compares the Greek
names ΣτροίϊΘος and Πΐπος.
7·
Sarcophagus (?) On a rough-
ly cut stone, now serving as a
jamb-stone of a stabledoor, south
111. 8. — Scale—i : io.
of the stream {selzAmman), near
the west end of the town. At
T , <..>,·■ the lower end the stone has a
protruding horn like those of sar-
cophagus covers; the upper end is cut away. The inscription is on an irregularly cut
protuberant plate resembling one end of the middle band sometimes found crossing
a sarcophagus cover from one side to the other. The back of the stone, turned
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ordinarily filled with natives, who were constantly driven away and returned immediately.
The lower part of the stone is in the ground, here the floor of the house, which could
not be removed; in the centre the stone has a perpendicular hole cut like a half-cylinder.
Hight of stone above ground 23 cm.; total length 50 cm. Hight of letters 31/2 cm. —
Copy of the author.
Εκ ytXorftfxJiag Κοκκίπου [’Αγ]ρίππείν[α] Κοκκί'πο[υ ’ΐ(ησο)ύ]
Throztgh the generosity of Kokkipos, Agrippina the
daughter of Kokkipos (has dedicated) to feszcs Christ, the
son of God....
The reading ’ΐ(τ?σο)ύ’ Χρστ(ώ) was suggested by Prof.
Keil who also assisted me in the interpretation of the whole
document.
Ill. 7. — Scale—I : io.
(Χ)ρι(στώ) θ(εο)ί
uko . . .
1
p^lAGCix
KI ΠΟΥ
ΡΓΠΤΤ®
κοκ Kim
ABIGQYYIW
The name Κοκκιπος is very unusual. It would be natural to think of Cocceius, but
such a reading is forbidden by the letters on the stone. We must rather consider it
a Semitic name. In Arabic hur-
kitf or kurkub means “small bird,”
and this would be a very suitable
meaning for a personal name. A
number of names with similar
meanings are given by Professor
Noldeke in his Beitrage zur semi-
tischen Sprachwissenschaft, p. 85,
where he also compares the Greek
names ΣτροίϊΘος and Πΐπος.
7·
Sarcophagus (?) On a rough-
ly cut stone, now serving as a
jamb-stone of a stabledoor, south
111. 8. — Scale—i : io.
of the stream {selzAmman), near
the west end of the town. At
T , <..>,·■ the lower end the stone has a
protruding horn like those of sar-
cophagus covers; the upper end is cut away. The inscription is on an irregularly cut
protuberant plate resembling one end of the middle band sometimes found crossing
a sarcophagus cover from one side to the other. The back of the stone, turned