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I Say Hell No!
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2023 7:17 am
by lclapshaw
Re: I Say Hell No!
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2023 3:25 pm
by MrMacSon
About the Akeptous Inscription, 3rd-4th century CE
https://cojs.org/akeptous_inscription-_ ... entury_ce/
- Akeptous_Inscription_2.jpg (140.9 KiB) Viewed 423 times
“
The god-loving [A]Keptous has offered the table to God Jesus Christ [IY(?) Xꭐ*(?)] as a memorial”
* or perhaps a variant of or on
Ψ [ not the Greek psi: a then version of Ω ]
eta: better images:
https://fe-biblica.blogspot.com/2022/11 ... ue-el.html
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Re: I Say Hell No!
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:59 pm
by Leucius Charinus
The inscription at the top of the northern panel is dedicated to Gaianus, the centurion who paid for the floor to be paved with mosaics. It reads,
- “Gaianus, also called Porphyrius, centurion, our brother, has made the pavement at his own expense as an act of liberality. Brutius has carried out the work.”
This has caused at least one scholar to refer to this site as "The Chapel of the Centurion".
Note that "
centurion" is abbreviated as
Chi Rho. This represents an abbreviation for the Greek word ἑκατόνταρχος (hekatóntarkhos) or centurion.
Re: I Say Hell No!
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 10:21 pm
by MrMacSon
The other inscription in that article, at the top of the article:
- Another_Megiddo_Inscription.jpg (100.39 KiB) Viewed 336 times
reads:
In Memorial of
Primilles and Kyri
-
akes and Dorotheas
moreover and Chreste