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passage into which it opens is about 6 feet wide and 10 feet long: it slopes upward
toward the higher ground on the north, and perhaps contains a stairway now concealed
by the debris. At the northern end of the passage there is a second doorway opening
from the north, which is now without a lintel: its lintel, however, may be the block
described under No. 1075. The present lintel is about 2 meters long, and about
35 cm. high. In the center of the inscription is a large cross in relief, 17 cm. high
and 15 broad, which breaks into the second and third lines. The inscription is incised.
The first line is 1.20 m. long, the second 1.42 m., including a break of 19 cm. caused
by the cross: the third line is 1.58 m. in length, including a break of 9 cm. The letters
are to cm. high, and all of them seem certain.
1. G1C Θ G O C K A I X P I C T G B Ο Η Θ 0 C Γ G N Ο Y
2. 0AGYCGBIUJYIOYKY (cross) PIAHEArOPACTHNKTICTHN
3. GT Ο Y C Η TT T Η Γ 0 P A C G N Η Ί T G K T I C G N C Y N Θ G UU TT A N Η M A
Είς Θείς και Χρίστε, βοηθάς γενοϋ Φλ. Ενσεβίω, υίού Κυρίλης, αγοραστήν (καί) κτίστην.
’ζί·'.τους ηπτζ ηγορασεν, η^τ εκτισεν συν Θεώ, Πανημ(συ) λ .
One God and Christ be a helper to Flavios Eusebios, son of Kyrilas (?), buyer
and bziilder! In (the) year 388 he bought (this place}, in 398 he built (this gateway)
with God, Panemos 30th. (339-40 and July, 350 a.d.).
The phrase βοηΘσς γενοϋ might take either a dative or a genitive; but it could
hardly take both dative and genitive, and also the accusative. And yet I think that
Ευσεβίω, υιού, αγοραστήν and κτίστην must all be in apposition. Doubtless the confusion
of vowels, natural to persons of Semitic origin, is larg-ely responsible for the solecism.
No other explanation seems to me as plausible, although αγοράς την κτίστην may be
read, and Κυρίλης may be feminine.
The tomb of an Eusebios, dated 369 a.d., was found at the neighboring· town of
Kokanaya.1 Eusebis, an architect, is mentioned in No. 1094, from Babiska, dated
389 a.d. Another Eusebis, a deacon, also in Babiska, appears in No. 1096, dated
401 a.d. Lastly, in No. 1089, from Dar Kita itself, Eusebios, an architect, is mentioned;
but the date of this inscription has been lost. Eusebios, of course, was a very common
name, and in none of these cases, except in the present one, is the name of the father given,
or any other certain means of identification. At least the following inscription, how-
ever, No. 1075, refers to the same person as No. 1074. A Kyrillas, an archi-
tect, is mentioned in an inscription from Ksedjbeh, which is close by.3 The Ksedjbeh
inscription is dated 414-5 a.d., but may refer to a grandson of “Κυρίλης”.
The passageway, to which this and probably also the following inscription belonged,
leads to an open space, on the west side of which was a large building, now completely
ruined: at the east end of the building was a broad portico, and at the west a high
wall pierced by large windows. This might well have been a market-hall, constructed
for the town by the public-spirited Eusebios.
1075. Lintel, 355 a.d. A lintel lying upon the ground, about ten feet north
of the gateway at the north end of the passage described under No. 1074, and pro-
1 A.A.E.S. Ill, 34.
2 A.A.E.S. Ill, 73.
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passage into which it opens is about 6 feet wide and 10 feet long: it slopes upward
toward the higher ground on the north, and perhaps contains a stairway now concealed
by the debris. At the northern end of the passage there is a second doorway opening
from the north, which is now without a lintel: its lintel, however, may be the block
described under No. 1075. The present lintel is about 2 meters long, and about
35 cm. high. In the center of the inscription is a large cross in relief, 17 cm. high
and 15 broad, which breaks into the second and third lines. The inscription is incised.
The first line is 1.20 m. long, the second 1.42 m., including a break of 19 cm. caused
by the cross: the third line is 1.58 m. in length, including a break of 9 cm. The letters
are to cm. high, and all of them seem certain.
1. G1C Θ G O C K A I X P I C T G B Ο Η Θ 0 C Γ G N Ο Y
2. 0AGYCGBIUJYIOYKY (cross) PIAHEArOPACTHNKTICTHN
3. GT Ο Y C Η TT T Η Γ 0 P A C G N Η Ί T G K T I C G N C Y N Θ G UU TT A N Η M A
Είς Θείς και Χρίστε, βοηθάς γενοϋ Φλ. Ενσεβίω, υίού Κυρίλης, αγοραστήν (καί) κτίστην.
’ζί·'.τους ηπτζ ηγορασεν, η^τ εκτισεν συν Θεώ, Πανημ(συ) λ .
One God and Christ be a helper to Flavios Eusebios, son of Kyrilas (?), buyer
and bziilder! In (the) year 388 he bought (this place}, in 398 he built (this gateway)
with God, Panemos 30th. (339-40 and July, 350 a.d.).
The phrase βοηΘσς γενοϋ might take either a dative or a genitive; but it could
hardly take both dative and genitive, and also the accusative. And yet I think that
Ευσεβίω, υιού, αγοραστήν and κτίστην must all be in apposition. Doubtless the confusion
of vowels, natural to persons of Semitic origin, is larg-ely responsible for the solecism.
No other explanation seems to me as plausible, although αγοράς την κτίστην may be
read, and Κυρίλης may be feminine.
The tomb of an Eusebios, dated 369 a.d., was found at the neighboring· town of
Kokanaya.1 Eusebis, an architect, is mentioned in No. 1094, from Babiska, dated
389 a.d. Another Eusebis, a deacon, also in Babiska, appears in No. 1096, dated
401 a.d. Lastly, in No. 1089, from Dar Kita itself, Eusebios, an architect, is mentioned;
but the date of this inscription has been lost. Eusebios, of course, was a very common
name, and in none of these cases, except in the present one, is the name of the father given,
or any other certain means of identification. At least the following inscription, how-
ever, No. 1075, refers to the same person as No. 1074. A Kyrillas, an archi-
tect, is mentioned in an inscription from Ksedjbeh, which is close by.3 The Ksedjbeh
inscription is dated 414-5 a.d., but may refer to a grandson of “Κυρίλης”.
The passageway, to which this and probably also the following inscription belonged,
leads to an open space, on the west side of which was a large building, now completely
ruined: at the east end of the building was a broad portico, and at the west a high
wall pierced by large windows. This might well have been a market-hall, constructed
for the town by the public-spirited Eusebios.
1075. Lintel, 355 a.d. A lintel lying upon the ground, about ten feet north
of the gateway at the north end of the passage described under No. 1074, and pro-
1 A.A.E.S. Ill, 34.
2 A.A.E.S. Ill, 73.