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Inscribed Plaque, Photograph Scanned from Malay, Inscriptions in the Manisa Museum. (From Malay, Inscriptions in the Manisa Museum, fig. 216.)
Inscribed Plaque: Funerary Inscription for Petros, diakonos and second
- Date
- 9th–10th century AD (C. Foss apud Malay)., Byzantine
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 520
- Museum Inventory No.
- 520
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa 520
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
† Ἐκυμίθι ὁ δοῦλος τοῦ θ(εο)ῦ Πέτρος διά- κον κὲ δευτερεύ- 4 γον μινὶ ‹Ἰ›ουνα- ρίο ἠς τὰς δεκ- ανέα.
- Inscription Translation
- “God’s servant Petros, diacon and second, was buried on the nineteenth of (the) month January.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Description
Plaque of marble. Letters ε, c, ω.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.63, W. 0.46 [at top, slanting toward bottom], Th. 0.10, H. of letters 0.025–0.035.
- Comments
1–6 Read: ἐκοιμήθη…διάκων καὶ δευτερεύων μηνὶ Ἰανουαρίῳ εἰς τὰς δεκαεννέα; see Malay’s notes.
3–4 δευτερεύων: equivalent to δευτεράριος (Malay with reference to SEG 36, 793); see D. Feissel, Recueil des inscriptions chrétiennes de Macédoine (1983), p. 213, no. 255 comm. (Herrmann). For the γ at the beginning of the last syllable, see E. Dettori, ZPE 204 (2017), pp. 136–37.
4 One iota probably dropped by haplography.
5–6 εἰς τὰς δεκαεννέα: Herrmann refers to similar funerary inscriptions, such as TAM V 1, 438 and TAM V 2, 1158.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Malay, Manisa Museum, pp. 145–46, no. 511, pl. 81, fig. 216. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP