Christian or Jewish funerary inscription
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Fifth to sixth centuries CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

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Μνήσθηθε [sic] Ῥούφου ὁ θεὸς τῆς κυμήσεος

Apparatus

Μνήσθηος[^a1]

[^a1: Μνήσθηος | Μνήσθηθει]

Translations

Remember Rufus, God of rest

Gedenke des Rufus, Gott, (seines) Schlafes

Remember the rest of Rufus, God

Dieu, n'oublie pas le repos éternel de Rufus

Commentary

Line 1: apparently for μνήσθητι; for a summary of the material on this formula in pagan, Jewish and Christian prayer see A. D. Nock JTS XXX (1929) 393f. Since there are no Christian symbols here, Applebaum regarded the text as Jewish, but Nock notes that in Syria the form μνήσθητι is limited to Christian inscriptions and it may be that Cabrol Leclerq are right to take it as Christian. See also the discussion by Lüderitz.

Line 3: for κοιμήσεως.