Christian inscription.
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Fourth to fifth centuries CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], 220-2 with plate, whence [...] 31.1579, [...] 324547; [...], 167.a

Θεός

[...]Ζ [...]Ω Η ΦΩ [...] Μ Α Ρ Ι Γ Η B I

Apparatus

[^a1: at ii 11: Η | Μ | ΣΕ]

[^a2: at ii 12: ΚΕ | Γ]

Translations

i. God.

ii. Christ, life and light? Maria?

Commentary

Reynolds, with great reservations, suggests the possibility of X(ριστος) ζωὴ φῶς (Christ, life and light) at the beginning; the reference to Mary in the lower part on the text may be right, but we should not, perhaps, rule out the possibility of χάρις, grace.