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M.137. Christian building inscription

Description: Mosaic floor.
Text: Mosaic lettering in a roundel (internal diameter c.0.56); the right half has been destroyed by the construction of an altar and the left half is in poor condition.
Letters: 0.07; square sigma, lunate omega

Date: Sixth century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: Theodorias/Gasr Leibia, in the East Church, on the floor of the chancel; found in 1957
Original location: Found in the apse of the church
Last recorded location: Relaid in the West Church

Interpretive

[ἐγέ-]
[νετο τοῦτο]
τὸ ἔργον ἐπ[ὶ τοῦ ὁϲιω(τάτου)?]
κὲ θεοϲεβ[εϲτάτου]
5 ἐπιϲκόπ[ου Θεο-]
δώ[ρου]

Diplomatic

[...-]
[.........]
ΤΟΕΡΓΟΝΕΠ[........]
ΚΕΘΕΟϹΕΒ[.......]
5ΕΠΙϹΚΟΠ[.....-]
ΔΩ[...]

Apparatus

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003

[This] work [too came into being] in the time of [the very holy] and pious bishop Theodorus

Commentary

Line 5: Theodoros: see also M.135, b.

For a more precise date see M.134, with M.135

Bibliography: Goodchild, 1957; Reynolds, 1960 no. 21.II, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1961.835, SEG 18.768.l, whence PHI 324465; Reynolds, 1980, 146, B. whence SEG 30.1787.B whence PHI 324535; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003 284.D
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. View of the left end