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Division III Section B Part 6
is in situ. It is about 2 m. long and 59 cm. high. In the center is a square plate,
72 cm. broad, above and on each side of which the inscription is written in a curious
fashion : the x Μ Γ and the names of the two saints form a little inscription by them-
selves, on the left of the plate, while the rest frames the plate on three sides, extending
outward at the bottom, to right and left, as mouldings often frame doors or windows
in this region. The letters are incised: they vary from 31/2 to 5 cm. in height, are
fairly well cut, and are all clear and certain.
X Μ Γ. Ό άγιος Θεόάορος
καί ό άγος ΐίργιος.
Κύρίέ, βωτ;3ί τον Κουλόν σον,
(Ααρ,ι) Δαμιανόν^ τον χτίσωντα
το χτίσμα. τούτο, μη(νος') Lotov,
ίνδι. πρόττης + τού aof (έτους).
Ch(rist) b(orn) of Μ (ary). St. Theodor os and St. Sergios.
Lord help they servant, Damianos, who btiilt this building, in the month Lobs,
indiction first, the 571st year ! (August, 523 a. d.)
Evidently the workman who carved this inscription inscribed the . first two syllables
of name Δαμιανός at the side of the square before he realized that he would not have
space enough to complete the name there: when he began again above the square he
wrote the name in full, repeating the first two syllables. On the letters X Μ Γ see
above under No. 1154.
1203. SIMKHAR. House (?), 272-3 a. d. On a plain stone in the left jamb of
a doorway, facing south, in the last group of buildings in the eastern part of the town.
Before it was a colonnade of piers. It seemed to belong to a private house. It may,
however, have been a religious building of some sort. The block is 43 cm. broad and
45 cm. high, the letters 5 cm. high. Drawn by Professor Littmann.
CA KT
< HNHCOHA;
;ATffWAc
Inscr. 1203.
"Έτους ακτ'. Μν^σδί? ο γράψας.
In the year 5.21 (?). May he who wrote
(this) be remembered! (272—3 (?) a. d.)
The second figure of the date is uncertain : it may be I, and, if so, the date is
262-3 a. d. The symbol above the inscription is worthy of notice; but I could not
determine its origin or significance.
The formula μνησθη o <hfva is as common in Syrian inscriptions as the more classical
Division III Section B Part 6
is in situ. It is about 2 m. long and 59 cm. high. In the center is a square plate,
72 cm. broad, above and on each side of which the inscription is written in a curious
fashion : the x Μ Γ and the names of the two saints form a little inscription by them-
selves, on the left of the plate, while the rest frames the plate on three sides, extending
outward at the bottom, to right and left, as mouldings often frame doors or windows
in this region. The letters are incised: they vary from 31/2 to 5 cm. in height, are
fairly well cut, and are all clear and certain.
X Μ Γ. Ό άγιος Θεόάορος
καί ό άγος ΐίργιος.
Κύρίέ, βωτ;3ί τον Κουλόν σον,
(Ααρ,ι) Δαμιανόν^ τον χτίσωντα
το χτίσμα. τούτο, μη(νος') Lotov,
ίνδι. πρόττης + τού aof (έτους).
Ch(rist) b(orn) of Μ (ary). St. Theodor os and St. Sergios.
Lord help they servant, Damianos, who btiilt this building, in the month Lobs,
indiction first, the 571st year ! (August, 523 a. d.)
Evidently the workman who carved this inscription inscribed the . first two syllables
of name Δαμιανός at the side of the square before he realized that he would not have
space enough to complete the name there: when he began again above the square he
wrote the name in full, repeating the first two syllables. On the letters X Μ Γ see
above under No. 1154.
1203. SIMKHAR. House (?), 272-3 a. d. On a plain stone in the left jamb of
a doorway, facing south, in the last group of buildings in the eastern part of the town.
Before it was a colonnade of piers. It seemed to belong to a private house. It may,
however, have been a religious building of some sort. The block is 43 cm. broad and
45 cm. high, the letters 5 cm. high. Drawn by Professor Littmann.
CA KT
< HNHCOHA;
;ATffWAc
Inscr. 1203.
"Έτους ακτ'. Μν^σδί? ο γράψας.
In the year 5.21 (?). May he who wrote
(this) be remembered! (272—3 (?) a. d.)
The second figure of the date is uncertain : it may be I, and, if so, the date is
262-3 a. d. The symbol above the inscription is worthy of notice; but I could not
determine its origin or significance.
The formula μνησθη o <hfva is as common in Syrian inscriptions as the more classical