Christian invocation
created: Transcribed from a photograph (Reynolds).
source date: Sixth century CE
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σύ εἰ θεοτόκοϲ ἡ ἐγείρουϲα ἀπὸ γῆϲ πτωχὸν καὶ ἀπὸ κοπρίαϲ ἀνυψοῦϲα πένητα καὶ μετ[...] μετὰ βαϲιλέων [...] ρηϲιαν[...] λωϲ[...] ϲῶϲον [...]

Apparatus

[^a1: at 1: θεοτό[κε· τὸν | θεοτό[κος, ? ἣ ἐγείρεις]

[^a2: at 2: ἄπ[ορον] | ἀν[ύψοις]

Translations

(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.