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Division III Section B Part 6
EIC0E OCKAI
0 X"P A Y T 0 Y 0 B
ΟΗΘυΝΘΕΟΔΟ
TWKETOYOIKOY
Εις Θεός καί o' Χο(ίστος) αύτοΰ, ο βουδών Θεοδ'ότω κέ του οίκου.
One God and his Christ who aideth Theodotos
and (his) house.
Compare the preceding inscription.
1187. Lintel of an interior doorway, in a curious building consisting of three
long narrow rooms, on the east side of the same court as No. 1175. This doorway
is between the southern and the middle rooms. See Div. II, b, p. 303 ff. On the
lintel is a door-cap, on one side of which is a large cross, and on the other a disk
containing a cross. The inscription is incised on the uppermost fascia of the door-cap.
This fascia measures 1.21 m. by 9 cm. The letters are 5^ cm. high: they are well
drawn, and although they are formed by shallow lines most of them are still perfectly
legible. The right end of the cap is slightly broken, but in such a way that I think
no letters have been lost from it. The inscription, however, may have been continued
on the face of the lintel, at the right of the cap, where the stone is now badly
weathered.
ANENEXHHTDYTTEPBYPDNETriTDYETTIC
This lintel was set zip under the bishop
See No. 1178 and its commentary.
1188. House(?). On a plain jamb of a doorway in a plain house, in the southeast
corner of the town. The width of the jamb is 45 cm. The letters are 7 to 8 cm.
high, and executed in very dim, broad lines. Below the inscription are crosses and
some other ornament, perhaps two large leaves, all in broad, incised lines.
1 X 0 Y C
0 μ 0 N 0 Γ
ΙΧΘΥΣ, ο Μονογζευκς).
J(esus) Ch(rist) (the) S(on) of G(od) (our) S(avior), the Only-Begotten.
On the subject of the fish-symbol or the acrostic ΙΧΘΥΣ see the exceedingly
interesting book by Professor Franz Jos. Dolger: IX0YC Das Fischsymbol in fruh-
christlicher Zeit, Freiburg i/B. and Rom, Vol. I, 1910. Also the valuable contributions
of Professor C. R. Morey, “The Origin of the Fish-Symbol”, in the Princeton Theolo-
gical Review, vm (1910), pp. 93 ff., ix, p. 268 ff., x, p. 278 ff. Also the admirable
reviews of these works by P. Louis Jalabert in the Melanges de la Faculte Orient,
de Beyrouth, V, 1 (1911), p. xix-xxx, and the Revue de Philo logic, xxxv (1911),
p. 118-122. Examples of this formula in Syrian inscriptions will be found in the Index
of Abbreviations and Symbols at the end of this volume, and also in the A. A. E. S. in
and in Waddington. The examples which can be dated definitely belong to the years
349-50, 368-9, 432, 439 and 500 a. d. 1 The oldest of all may be that from Shakka,
1 P. A. E. S. 1206, 1120, 971, A. A. E. S. 284, and P. A. E. S. 1147.
Division III Section B Part 6
EIC0E OCKAI
0 X"P A Y T 0 Y 0 B
ΟΗΘυΝΘΕΟΔΟ
TWKETOYOIKOY
Εις Θεός καί o' Χο(ίστος) αύτοΰ, ο βουδών Θεοδ'ότω κέ του οίκου.
One God and his Christ who aideth Theodotos
and (his) house.
Compare the preceding inscription.
1187. Lintel of an interior doorway, in a curious building consisting of three
long narrow rooms, on the east side of the same court as No. 1175. This doorway
is between the southern and the middle rooms. See Div. II, b, p. 303 ff. On the
lintel is a door-cap, on one side of which is a large cross, and on the other a disk
containing a cross. The inscription is incised on the uppermost fascia of the door-cap.
This fascia measures 1.21 m. by 9 cm. The letters are 5^ cm. high: they are well
drawn, and although they are formed by shallow lines most of them are still perfectly
legible. The right end of the cap is slightly broken, but in such a way that I think
no letters have been lost from it. The inscription, however, may have been continued
on the face of the lintel, at the right of the cap, where the stone is now badly
weathered.
ANENEXHHTDYTTEPBYPDNETriTDYETTIC
This lintel was set zip under the bishop
See No. 1178 and its commentary.
1188. House(?). On a plain jamb of a doorway in a plain house, in the southeast
corner of the town. The width of the jamb is 45 cm. The letters are 7 to 8 cm.
high, and executed in very dim, broad lines. Below the inscription are crosses and
some other ornament, perhaps two large leaves, all in broad, incised lines.
1 X 0 Y C
0 μ 0 N 0 Γ
ΙΧΘΥΣ, ο Μονογζευκς).
J(esus) Ch(rist) (the) S(on) of G(od) (our) S(avior), the Only-Begotten.
On the subject of the fish-symbol or the acrostic ΙΧΘΥΣ see the exceedingly
interesting book by Professor Franz Jos. Dolger: IX0YC Das Fischsymbol in fruh-
christlicher Zeit, Freiburg i/B. and Rom, Vol. I, 1910. Also the valuable contributions
of Professor C. R. Morey, “The Origin of the Fish-Symbol”, in the Princeton Theolo-
gical Review, vm (1910), pp. 93 ff., ix, p. 268 ff., x, p. 278 ff. Also the admirable
reviews of these works by P. Louis Jalabert in the Melanges de la Faculte Orient,
de Beyrouth, V, 1 (1911), p. xix-xxx, and the Revue de Philo logic, xxxv (1911),
p. 118-122. Examples of this formula in Syrian inscriptions will be found in the Index
of Abbreviations and Symbols at the end of this volume, and also in the A. A. E. S. in
and in Waddington. The examples which can be dated definitely belong to the years
349-50, 368-9, 432, 439 and 500 a. d. 1 The oldest of all may be that from Shakka,
1 P. A. E. S. 1206, 1120, 971, A. A. E. S. 284, and P. A. E. S. 1147.