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Refadeh.
165
here the era of Bostra was employed. In view of the uniform practice in this region
of dating according to the “era of Antioch”, this suggestion seems to me impossible.
See also Jalabert, in Melanges de Beyrouth, v, 1, p. xxvii.
1148. House, 510 a. d. “Sur le parapet de la galerie exterieure d’une maison
antique. Bien conserve”, Waddington. See also M. de Vogue, S.C. Pl. 110, and
Butler, A.A.B.S. 11, p. 252. The inscription was discovered and copied by Waddington
and also by Gosche : it was not found by the Princeton Expedition of 1905 or by the
American Expedition of 1899—1900.
Published by Waddington No. 2696. S. de Ricci (from the copy by Gosche) in 7?. Archeol. 1907, 2,
pp. 287 and 294. A.A.E.S. hi. No. 119.
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εν
στοά
Συμεών/?;. 4~ Κυ(ρίε) εΰλόγ/?σον τ<υ είσοδον και την έξοδον ημών, άμην. 'Επλγιρόθη
p.fivi) Ασιου ις (?), ίνδ^ικτνΛνος) τρίτης, του ηνη έτους. ’Αηράμης.
Symeones. + Lord bless ozir coming in and our going out, amen. (This) stoa
was completed on (the) i6th(?) of (the) month Lobs, indiction third, in the 558th year.
Aerames. (August, 510A.D.)
Waddington, in his commentary on this inscription, says: “Συμεών/?; et ’Αηράμης
sont les proprietaires de la maison. On remarquera combien le nom propre Συμεών/?;
est frequent dans ce district”. Professor Littmann and M. de Ricci both propose to
read ABPAMHC for AHPAMHC, and probably this correction should be made in
Waddington’s text, although the latter receives some support from Gosche’s copy.
Αβραμης, and kindred forms of the name Abraham, are very common in Syria.
The word στοά, in the present inscription, doubtless means a bazaar, in which the
goods for sale were exposed in the lower story of the portico before the building, very
much as in the modern Syrian bazaars. See A.A.B.S. 11, p. 127 f. and 167 f.: also
A.A.L.S. iv, Syriac 14 and 15.
On the sentence Κυ(ριε) εύλογησον κτλ. see the commentary to No. 1109 above.
1149. House. On the lintel of a house with a portico still standing, near the
tower, in the south-western part of the town. Div. II, b, p. 257 f., Ill. 271 f. The
inscription, in letters 4 to 5 cm. high, is incised upon the outer rim of a disk of
unusual form. This rim is about 6 cm. broad. Within it is a ring, perhaps 2^ cm.
broad, ornamented with a rope pattern. Within the ring is a circular space, 36 cm.
in diameter, which may have contained a head in relief. If so, the head has been
completely destroyed, for the surface is now rough as if some ornament had been rudely
hacked away. The cross, with which the inscription begins, is directly above the center
of the disk. The remaining letters occupy about one quarter of the rim, 'the last two
letters being very nearly oblitterated. After these five letters, a space of about the
same length is mutilated so that no letters can be read. The rest of the rim seems never
to have been inscribed. Copied by Professor Littmann.
This may be + 'Αγια Mjapt'a]; but since only the letters A ΓI are clear,
1 A Γ1 A Such a reading is most uncertain.
1150. Rock-hewn chamber. Over the entrance of a large, rock-hewn chamber,
used at one time for making olive oil, and perhaps designed for this purpose originally.
165
here the era of Bostra was employed. In view of the uniform practice in this region
of dating according to the “era of Antioch”, this suggestion seems to me impossible.
See also Jalabert, in Melanges de Beyrouth, v, 1, p. xxvii.
1148. House, 510 a. d. “Sur le parapet de la galerie exterieure d’une maison
antique. Bien conserve”, Waddington. See also M. de Vogue, S.C. Pl. 110, and
Butler, A.A.B.S. 11, p. 252. The inscription was discovered and copied by Waddington
and also by Gosche : it was not found by the Princeton Expedition of 1905 or by the
American Expedition of 1899—1900.
Published by Waddington No. 2696. S. de Ricci (from the copy by Gosche) in 7?. Archeol. 1907, 2,
pp. 287 and 294. A.A.E.S. hi. No. 119.
3
εν
στοά
Συμεών/?;. 4~ Κυ(ρίε) εΰλόγ/?σον τ<υ είσοδον και την έξοδον ημών, άμην. 'Επλγιρόθη
p.fivi) Ασιου ις (?), ίνδ^ικτνΛνος) τρίτης, του ηνη έτους. ’Αηράμης.
Symeones. + Lord bless ozir coming in and our going out, amen. (This) stoa
was completed on (the) i6th(?) of (the) month Lobs, indiction third, in the 558th year.
Aerames. (August, 510A.D.)
Waddington, in his commentary on this inscription, says: “Συμεών/?; et ’Αηράμης
sont les proprietaires de la maison. On remarquera combien le nom propre Συμεών/?;
est frequent dans ce district”. Professor Littmann and M. de Ricci both propose to
read ABPAMHC for AHPAMHC, and probably this correction should be made in
Waddington’s text, although the latter receives some support from Gosche’s copy.
Αβραμης, and kindred forms of the name Abraham, are very common in Syria.
The word στοά, in the present inscription, doubtless means a bazaar, in which the
goods for sale were exposed in the lower story of the portico before the building, very
much as in the modern Syrian bazaars. See A.A.B.S. 11, p. 127 f. and 167 f.: also
A.A.L.S. iv, Syriac 14 and 15.
On the sentence Κυ(ριε) εύλογησον κτλ. see the commentary to No. 1109 above.
1149. House. On the lintel of a house with a portico still standing, near the
tower, in the south-western part of the town. Div. II, b, p. 257 f., Ill. 271 f. The
inscription, in letters 4 to 5 cm. high, is incised upon the outer rim of a disk of
unusual form. This rim is about 6 cm. broad. Within it is a ring, perhaps 2^ cm.
broad, ornamented with a rope pattern. Within the ring is a circular space, 36 cm.
in diameter, which may have contained a head in relief. If so, the head has been
completely destroyed, for the surface is now rough as if some ornament had been rudely
hacked away. The cross, with which the inscription begins, is directly above the center
of the disk. The remaining letters occupy about one quarter of the rim, 'the last two
letters being very nearly oblitterated. After these five letters, a space of about the
same length is mutilated so that no letters can be read. The rest of the rim seems never
to have been inscribed. Copied by Professor Littmann.
This may be + 'Αγια Mjapt'a]; but since only the letters A ΓI are clear,
1 A Γ1 A Such a reading is most uncertain.
1150. Rock-hewn chamber. Over the entrance of a large, rock-hewn chamber,
used at one time for making olive oil, and perhaps designed for this purpose originally.