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Kefr Nabo
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was built from the funds of their cult. There was in this town a very large temple,
drums of the columns of which were afterwards built into the apse of the church.
See Div. II, b, p. 294.
The lintel was originally about 2.45 m. long, and 79 cm. high. It is ornamented
by a series of mouldings, of which the lowest two fasciae bear lines 1 and 2, and lines
3-5, respectively. These
mouldings do not frame
the lintel, but form a sort
of door-cap. At the right
side, the face of the lintel
extended, originally, about
22 cm. farther; but from
this end a rectangular hole
has been cut, as if to receive
the end of a beam, so that
the space beyond the cap,
opposite lines 1-4, is now
only from 8 to 10 cm. wide.
The cutting of this hole,
however, does not seem to
have destroyed any letters,
and perhaps the hole was
cut before the inscription.
The space at the right of
the cap was used for completing lines 2 and 3. The letter C of προσόδων was
evidently omitted by mistake, and added on the face of the stone nearly in a line
with TTPO. Then, there being a little room left at the end of line 3, after ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥ,
the carver, wishing to add τοϋ έβοχάτου, wrote a small T on the cap, and beyond, Ο Y,
BO, KA, Till, these letters in pairs one under the other, beginning under the C
mentioned above. This C he then seems to have changed to 6, adding a very small
C for the προσόδων still farther up. This procedure has placed the letters in a curious
order; but the meaning is clear enough. Line 5 is in very small letters, and is carved
along the bottom of the lowest fascia, belotv line 4, where there is no proper space
for it. Obviously this line was added after the rest was finished. Lines 6-8 are
carved below the cap, on the plain face of the lintel.
The two inscribed fasciae were 2.20 m. long (both fragments together): the first
is 12 cm. wide, the second 15 cm. Below the cap the space containing lines 6-8 is
18 cm. high. Line 6 begins 11 cm. from the left end of the stone, and is 2.18 m.
long. Line 7 begins 82 cm. from the left end, and is 1.55 m. long. Line 8 begins
1.02 m. from the left end, and is 75 cm. long. Most of the letters are 5 to 6 cm.
high: the smaller ones, however, are only 4 cm. high or less.
Left half of the lintel which bears Inscr. 1170.
Published by M. Victor Chapot, in B. C. H. xxvi (1902), p. 181 ff. and by M. Th. Uspensky, in
Archaeological Monuments of Syria, 1902, p. 71 f. = Izviestiya of the Russian Arch. Institute at Constantinople,
Vol. vn, p. 164 f. See Lidzbarski, Ephemeris fur Semitische Epigraphik 11 (1903-1907), p. 323 f. See also
Dussaud, in R. A. iv (1904, 2), p. 251-260.
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was built from the funds of their cult. There was in this town a very large temple,
drums of the columns of which were afterwards built into the apse of the church.
See Div. II, b, p. 294.
The lintel was originally about 2.45 m. long, and 79 cm. high. It is ornamented
by a series of mouldings, of which the lowest two fasciae bear lines 1 and 2, and lines
3-5, respectively. These
mouldings do not frame
the lintel, but form a sort
of door-cap. At the right
side, the face of the lintel
extended, originally, about
22 cm. farther; but from
this end a rectangular hole
has been cut, as if to receive
the end of a beam, so that
the space beyond the cap,
opposite lines 1-4, is now
only from 8 to 10 cm. wide.
The cutting of this hole,
however, does not seem to
have destroyed any letters,
and perhaps the hole was
cut before the inscription.
The space at the right of
the cap was used for completing lines 2 and 3. The letter C of προσόδων was
evidently omitted by mistake, and added on the face of the stone nearly in a line
with TTPO. Then, there being a little room left at the end of line 3, after ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥ,
the carver, wishing to add τοϋ έβοχάτου, wrote a small T on the cap, and beyond, Ο Y,
BO, KA, Till, these letters in pairs one under the other, beginning under the C
mentioned above. This C he then seems to have changed to 6, adding a very small
C for the προσόδων still farther up. This procedure has placed the letters in a curious
order; but the meaning is clear enough. Line 5 is in very small letters, and is carved
along the bottom of the lowest fascia, belotv line 4, where there is no proper space
for it. Obviously this line was added after the rest was finished. Lines 6-8 are
carved below the cap, on the plain face of the lintel.
The two inscribed fasciae were 2.20 m. long (both fragments together): the first
is 12 cm. wide, the second 15 cm. Below the cap the space containing lines 6-8 is
18 cm. high. Line 6 begins 11 cm. from the left end of the stone, and is 2.18 m.
long. Line 7 begins 82 cm. from the left end, and is 1.55 m. long. Line 8 begins
1.02 m. from the left end, and is 75 cm. long. Most of the letters are 5 to 6 cm.
high: the smaller ones, however, are only 4 cm. high or less.
Left half of the lintel which bears Inscr. 1170.
Published by M. Victor Chapot, in B. C. H. xxvi (1902), p. 181 ff. and by M. Th. Uspensky, in
Archaeological Monuments of Syria, 1902, p. 71 f. = Izviestiya of the Russian Arch. Institute at Constantinople,
Vol. vn, p. 164 f. See Lidzbarski, Ephemeris fur Semitische Epigraphik 11 (1903-1907), p. 323 f. See also
Dussaud, in R. A. iv (1904, 2), p. 251-260.