Description: Two pieces forming the left side of an inscribed stele, probably limestone (w:
0.45 x h:
0.37 x d:
0.075)
Text: Carefully cut.
Letters: Probably sixth cent AD: 0.035; lunate epsilon, sigma, omega.
Date: Sixth century CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Barke; recorded in 1925,
as from the garden of Hussein el-Turchi to the right of the former Viale Regina Elena.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Apparatus
Underlined letters were seen by Oliverio and recorded in his notes. P.C. offered no supplements of his own but cites Oliverio's notes as follows: ; θεοτό[κε· τὸν SECir, 1961-1962; θεοτό[κος, ? ἣ ἐγείρεις Reynolds, 19602: ἄπ[ορον] SECir, 1961-1962; ἀν[ύψοις Reynolds, 1960
3: μέτ[οικον] SECir, 1961-1962
4-5: [παρ]/ρησίαν SECir, 1961-1962
5-6: [πλείστην κα]/λῶς [δηλούμενον] SECir, 1961-1962
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
(Cross) You are the Mother of God [who lifts the] beggar [from the earth and raises the] poor man [from the dung-heap? and places him] among kings [ . . .
Commentary
The phrasing in lines is from the Septuagint, Psalm 112.7-8:ὁ ἐγείρων ἀπὸ γῆς πτωχὸν καὶ ἀπὸ κοπρίας ἀνυψῶν πένητα (8) τοῦ καθίσαι αὐτὸν μετὰ ἀρχόντων; the reading here is that suggested by Tod, to the editors of SEG 17. For its use in Christian inscriptions cf. IGLS IV. 1455, 1460, 1461 (PHI 243701, 243706, 243707), where, however, the action is ascribed to the Lord, not to the Theotokos, as here.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1960, 18 whence SEG 18.765 PHI 324462; SECir, 1961-1962, 96 p.269, fig. 75 (from T.VIII 12v), mentioned SEG 20.765; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 265.32
Text constituted from: Transcribed from a photograph (Reynolds).
Images
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