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A.41. Christian prayer

Description: Fragment of a coarse ceramic (w: 0.05 x h: 0.03).
Text: Inscribed before firing.
Letters: 0.008; lunate epsilon, cursive omega.

Date: Fourth to sixth century CE

Findspot: Apollonia: Central Church; found probably in 1961.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Apollonia Museum.

Interpretive

[---] Κ(ύρι)ε βω[ήθει]
[---] το̣̣͂ δούλ̣[ο͂ ϲοῦ]
[---] Λ̣έονι Ν[---]

Diplomatic

[---]ΚΕΒΩ[....]
[---]Τ..ΔΟΥ.[.....]
[---].ΕΟΝΙΝ[---]

Apparatus

3: There seems to be a stop and a rather broad space after ι; but it may be that the name continued.

English translation

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

Lord, help your servant Leo [?son of N-]

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 50, whence SEG 27.1179; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 77; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 283
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).