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was a governor of Arabia. The word γΐγεμίνεύς is used in sepulchral and laudatory
epigrams of the Roman and Byzantine periods to designate one who had distinguished
himself in war, and not in the technical sense in which -/γεμών is so frequently employed;
see C.I.G. 6281 — I.G. xiv 1437 and C.I.G. i4O9 = Kaibel, Ep. Gr. 917. In general,
the form τίγεμονζία (or Ηγεμονίας) is a convenient word with which to end a dactylic
line, and it is not infrequently thus used in late hexameter poetry; e.g. Anth. Pal.~xiN
72, Manetho, Apotel. 1 36 and 72.
The general phraseology of the inscription, and especially the verb στχίσε, seems
to indicate clearly that the lines refer to a statue. The size of the stone, however,
suggests a lintel, and, in any case, the block is too large to have been merely a
portion of the base of a statue. It may have formed the upper member of the facade
of some small building, perhaps a tomb, on the top of which the statue stood.
The language of the inscription is surprisingly good, except for the form εύεργεστίης,
if our reading be correct; this is not only a solecism but a metrical blunder, and is
probably an error on the part of the stone-cutter.
560, 561. Columns. 488 a. d. Standing in the Djami il-Omari, in the north
central part of the city. The columns are in the south colonnade of the Mosque;
no. 560 is on the third column from the west end of the second row, no. 561 on the
second column from the west end of the inner row. The inscriptions are within two
incised concentric circles. Diameter of the outer circle of no. 560, 41 cm., of the inner
35^2 cm.; length of 1. 1, 23 cm., of 1. 2, 29^ cm. Diameter of the outer circle of
no. 561, 42 cm., of the inner 37 cm.; length of 1. 1, 21 cm., of 1. 2, 26 cm. Above
no. 560 there are slight traces of a cross, which seems to have been purposely erased
from the stone. Height of letters 3—4 cm.
C.I.G. 8623; Waddington, no. 1913; Ewing, P.E.F. 1895, p. 350 f.,
nos. 176 and 177; Schumacher, Z.D.P.-V. xx (1897), p. 148 f.
Εν ονοματί τού
Σωτήρος Χρίστου.
’Επί Φλ(αουώυ) ’Αρκαοίου
Αλεξάνδρου τού
λ(α)ρ.προτάτου σχο(λαστικού)
καί Εμρ,όυοζ
έκτίσθη εκ
Θεμελίων το
τρίκονγον σί^ιια
καί επλϊψώθι?,
εν έτεί τπγζ
χρνν(οίς) ί'νό'ίκ(τίώνος)
ενίεκά-
Inscr. 561. Scale ι : ίο.
Division III Section A Part 4
was a governor of Arabia. The word γΐγεμίνεύς is used in sepulchral and laudatory
epigrams of the Roman and Byzantine periods to designate one who had distinguished
himself in war, and not in the technical sense in which -/γεμών is so frequently employed;
see C.I.G. 6281 — I.G. xiv 1437 and C.I.G. i4O9 = Kaibel, Ep. Gr. 917. In general,
the form τίγεμονζία (or Ηγεμονίας) is a convenient word with which to end a dactylic
line, and it is not infrequently thus used in late hexameter poetry; e.g. Anth. Pal.~xiN
72, Manetho, Apotel. 1 36 and 72.
The general phraseology of the inscription, and especially the verb στχίσε, seems
to indicate clearly that the lines refer to a statue. The size of the stone, however,
suggests a lintel, and, in any case, the block is too large to have been merely a
portion of the base of a statue. It may have formed the upper member of the facade
of some small building, perhaps a tomb, on the top of which the statue stood.
The language of the inscription is surprisingly good, except for the form εύεργεστίης,
if our reading be correct; this is not only a solecism but a metrical blunder, and is
probably an error on the part of the stone-cutter.
560, 561. Columns. 488 a. d. Standing in the Djami il-Omari, in the north
central part of the city. The columns are in the south colonnade of the Mosque;
no. 560 is on the third column from the west end of the second row, no. 561 on the
second column from the west end of the inner row. The inscriptions are within two
incised concentric circles. Diameter of the outer circle of no. 560, 41 cm., of the inner
35^2 cm.; length of 1. 1, 23 cm., of 1. 2, 29^ cm. Diameter of the outer circle of
no. 561, 42 cm., of the inner 37 cm.; length of 1. 1, 21 cm., of 1. 2, 26 cm. Above
no. 560 there are slight traces of a cross, which seems to have been purposely erased
from the stone. Height of letters 3—4 cm.
C.I.G. 8623; Waddington, no. 1913; Ewing, P.E.F. 1895, p. 350 f.,
nos. 176 and 177; Schumacher, Z.D.P.-V. xx (1897), p. 148 f.
Εν ονοματί τού
Σωτήρος Χρίστου.
’Επί Φλ(αουώυ) ’Αρκαοίου
Αλεξάνδρου τού
λ(α)ρ.προτάτου σχο(λαστικού)
καί Εμρ,όυοζ
έκτίσθη εκ
Θεμελίων το
τρίκονγον σί^ιια
καί επλϊψώθι?,
εν έτεί τπγζ
χρνν(οίς) ί'νό'ίκ(τίώνος)
ενίεκά-
Inscr. 561. Scale ι : ίο.