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  • Hexameron 3.13.53

    Ambrose
    trabes domorum nostrarum caedri, lacunaria nostra cypressi, in volantes esse declarans decora sui ornamenta fastigii, qui quasi trabes verticem ecclesiae sua virtute sustineant et fastigium [*] eius exornent.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century CE

  • Contra Parmenianum Donatistam 3.3

    Optatus of Milevis
    Miserat enim ornamenta domibus Dei, miserat pauperibus eleemosynam, nihil Donato.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century CE

  • Hexameron 3.13.53

    Ambrose
    laurus et palma insigne victoriae: lauro victorum capita coronantur, palma manus victricis ornatus est.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century CE

  • ILCV 01637 = D 01294 = AE 2002, +00172

    Unknown
    Fl(avius) Ricimer v(ir) i(nlustris) magister utriusque militiae patricius et ex cons(ule) ord(inario) pro voto suo adornavit

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 5th century CE
    Date: 459-472
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • ICUR-07, 18370

    Unknown
    Succedunt meliora tibi miranda tuenti / quae Leopardi labor cura et vigilantia fecit / sumptibus haec propriis ornavit moenia Christi / respice et ingressu placido nova quaeque revise / caelestis manus ecce dei quae praemia reddit / quae cumulata vides digna in ecclesia Christi

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 390-424
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • ICUR-02, 04119

    Unknown
    Lux arcana dei verbum sapientia lucis / atque coruscantis splendida imago patris / ad nos descendit nec quo fuit esse recessit / ut caecas mentes erueret tenebris / plenus homo in nostris et verus nascitur isdem / virginis ex utero totus ubique deus / discipulus praecepta dedit Petrumque beatum / hos inter primum sanxit et egregium / cuius in arbitrio caelum terramque reliquit / pandere vel potius claudere cumque velit / nam sub mortigenae quidam iacuere gehennae / verbere confossi mente fide opere / histria testatur possessa hostilibus annis / septies et decies scismate pestifero / esset ut impletum Hieremiae voce canentis / ultio captivis tam numerosa fuit / sed bonus antistes dux plebis Honorius armis / redditi ecclesiae membra revulsa piis / doctrinis montisque suis de faucibus hostis / abstulit exactis iam peritura modis / at tuus argento praesul construxit opimo / ornavitque fores Petre beate tbi / tu modo caelorum quapropter ianitor alme / fac tranquilla tui tempora cuncta gregis

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 7th century CE
    Date: 625-638
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • CIL 11, 00294 = ILCV 00695 = ILCV +01036

    Unknown
    B(eati) Apolenaris sacerdotis basilica / mandante v(iro) b(eato) Ursicino episcopo / a fundamentis Iulianus argentarius / (a)edificavit ornavit atque dedicavit / consecrante v(iro) b(ono) Maximiano episcopo / die (!) Maiarum ind(ictione) XII octies p(ost) c(onsulatum) Basilii

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 6th century CE
    Date: 534-549
    Location: Aemilia: Ravenna

  • CIL 11, 00288 = ILCV +01036 = ILCV 01795

    Unknown
    B(eati) martiris Vitalis basilica / mandate Eclesio v(iro) b(eato) episcopo / a fundamentis Iulianus argentarius / (a)edificavit ornavit atque dedicavit / consecrante v(iro) r(eferendo) Maximiano episcopo / sub die XIII [3] sexies p(ost) c(onsulatum) Basilii Iunioris

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 6th century CE
    Date: 526-547
    Location: Aemilia: Ravenna

  • ILCV 00977

    Unknown
    Hic locus olim sordentis cumuli squalore congestus sumptu / et studio Chr(ist)i famuli Hilari ep(iscop)i iuvante d(omi)no tanta rude/rum mole sublata quantum culminis nunc videtur ad / offerendum Ch(ist)o d(e)o munus ornatus atq(ue) dedicatus est

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 5th century CE
    Date: 461-468
    Location: Latium: Rome: St. John Lateran

  • EMC p 14 = AE 2000, 00358

    Unknown
    Beata ecclesia <B=V>arina gaudet in suo antiste Andrea / cum suis clerus pariter exultat Timotheus cum suis qui adiutus divi[n]o / beneficio ad laudem sanct(a)e dei plebis praesentis aul(a)e de donis / eius votum persol<v=B>ens tutius opere ornatum exple<v=B>it

    Text Category: Inscription: mosaic
    Century Range: 6th century CE
    Location: Apulia et Calabria:Barium

  • CIL 11, 00268 = ILCV 00225 = AE 2002, +00017

    Unknown
    [Salvo gloriosi]issimo et clementissi[mo] / [rege Theoderico] vir subl(imis) Gudila com(es) / [ord(inis) pr(imi) et cura]tor r(ei) p(u)b(licae) hanc sta/[tuam terrae m]oto conlapsam / [statuit n]oviter super / [marmorea] vase ad ornatum / [ecclesiae] Faventinae / [ex dono propr]iae civitati[s]

    Text Category: Inscription: base
    Century Range: 6th century CE
    Date: 523-526
    Location: Aemilia: Ravenna

  • Greek Anthology 1.12

    Unknown
    ἐκ δέ με κείνης Πλακιδίη κόσμησε σὺν ὀλβίστῳ παρακοίτῃ:᾿: εἰ δέ που ἀγλαΐης ἐπεδεύετο κάλλος ἐμεῖο, τὴν δέ μοι ὀλβιόδωρος ὑπὲρ μνήμης γενετήρων δῶκεν Ἰουλιανή, καὶ ὑπέρτατον ὤπασε κῦδος μητέρι καὶ γενέτῃ καὶ ἀγακλέι μητρὶ τεκούσης, κόσμον ἀεξήσασα παλαίτερον.

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 6th century CE
    Location: Constantinople

  • Greek Anthology 1.10

    Unknown
    ἀλλ᾽ ὡς θυμὸν ἔχουσα θεοπρόπον, ὅττι γενέθλην καλλείψει δεδαυῖαν ἀμείνονα κόσμον ὀπάζειν

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 6th century CE
    Location: Constantinople

  • SEG 35:1528

    Unknown
    ἐπὶ τοῦ ε[ὐλ]αβεστάτου ἐπισκόπου Μαρκέλ- λου ἐν ἡμ[έρα]ις Παλλαδίου καὶ Εὐσεβίου τῶν τιμιωτάτων πρεσβυτέρων ἡ ἐκλησία {²sic}² [σ]ὺν τῷ φωτιστηρίῳ καὶ τοῦ μαρτυρίου μετὰ πάσης ἐπικοσμήσεως ἐκ θεμελίων ἐκτίσθησαν σπουδῇ Εὐφρασίου διακόνου καὶ οἰκονόμου καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν διακόνων.

    Text Category: Inscription
    Location: Syria

  • Gerasa 327

    Unknown
    [☩ ἦ μά]λα θαύματα καλὰ φέρ[ει πᾶ]ς ἱεροφάντης ἀ̣ν̣θρώποις οἳ τήνδε πόλιν καὶ γαῖαν ἔχουσιν, οὕνεκεν οἶκον ἔδειμε μαθηταῖς πρωτοστάταις Πέτρῳ καὶ Παύλῳ (τοῖς γὰρ σθένος ἄνθετο Σωτήρ) ἀργυρέοις κόσμοισι καὶ εὐβαφεέσσι λίθοισιν κλεινὸς Ἀναστάσιος, θεομήδεα πιστὰ διδάσκων.

    Text Category: Inscription: mosaic
    Century Range: 6th century CE
    Location: Arabia/ Syria Decapolis: Gerasa

  • Gerasa 309

    Unknown
    ἐπὶ τοῦ θεοφιλεστ̣[άτου καὶ ὁσιω(τάτου) ἐπισ]κόπου Πα[ύλου] [ἐσ]τεγάσθη καὶ ἐψηφώθη̣ κ̣[αὶ ἀ]ν̣ε̣κοσμήθη ὁ ναὸς το̣[ῦ ἁγίου] [Γε]ωργίου ἐκ προσφορᾶς οὗ ὁ Κύριος οἶδεν τὸ ὄνομα ὑπ[ὲρ συν]- χωρήσεως ἁμαρτιῶν ἐν χρόνοις ηʹ ἰνδ(ικτιῶνος) τοῦ βϙφʹ ἔτους.

    Text Category: Inscription: mosaic
    Century Range: 6th century CE
    Date: 531
    Location: Arabia/ Syria Decapolis: Gerasa: Chuch of George

  • Gerasa 306

    Unknown
    [☩ ὅσ]οι βλέπουσι τοῦ τόπου τὸ κόσμιον / καὶ τῆς στέγης τὸ σεμνὸν ἢ τῆς ψηφίδος, / Παύλου δικαίως τοῦ σοφοῦ τοῦ ποιμένος / ❦ α̣ἰ̣νοῦσι ἀτεχνῶς τὴν ἄγαν προθυμίαν / καὶ τοῦ κτίσαντος τὴν χορηγίαν θαμά. / Θεόδωρος οὗτος οἴκοθεν χρυσὸν̣ διδούς, / ὃν Θωμᾶς ἐξέθρεψεν οἷα πατὴρ γεγώς, / ψυχῇ προθύμῳ προσφορὰν τῷ Προδρόμῳ / (οὗ τὴν ὁμώνυμον προσηγορίαν ἐπέλαχεν), / ὁ πᾶσαν ἐνθεὶς τῷ τόπῳ τὴν καλλονήν.

    Text Category: Inscription: mosaic
    Century Range: 6th century CE
    Date: 531
    Location: Arabia/ Syria Decapolis: Gerasa: Chuch of John the Baptist

  • IGLSyr 13,1 9139

    Unknown
    ἐπὶ τοῦ θεοφιλ(εστάτου) ἀρχιεπισκ(όπου) Σεργίου ἀνενεώθη ἐκ θε- μελίων ὀ δυτικὸς τοῖχος τοῦ ναοῦ καὶ διεκοσμήθη

    Text Category: Inscription
    Location: Arabia: Bostra

  • SEG 8:279

    Unknown
    ☩ τόνδε τὸν νεὸν δαψιλεῖ [ψηφώσει διεκόσ]- μησαν ὅ τε ὁσιώτ(ατος) ἡμῶν ἐ[πίσκ(οπος) — —] καὶ ὁ θεοφιλ(έστατος) Γεώργιος ὁ π[ρεσβ(ύτερος) καὶ παραμο]- νάριος ἐν τῷ βκχʹ ἔτει κατὰ [Γαζαίους, ἰνδ(ικτιῶνος) ιʹ☩].

    Text Category: Inscription: mosaic
    Century Range: 6th century CE
    Location: Palaestina: Birsama

  • SEG 8:243

    Unknown
    Χριστοῦ παμβασιλῆος ἐκόσμησα τὸ μέλαθρον, / οὖδας, ὀδὸν ψηφῖσιν ἰδίων διὰ μαθητῶν / τοῦδ’ ἱερεὺς ἀμύμων Ὀβοδιανὸς̣ ἠπιόθυμος.

    Text Category: Inscription: mosaic
    Century Range: 5th century CE
    Location: Palaestina: Eleutheropolis: Chapel of Christ Pantocrator

  • SEG 26:1629

    Unknown
    πολλῶν μετ’ ἄλ- λων κ(αὶ) τόπον τὸν ἐνθάδ’ ἐκόσμησε Παῦλος τῆι πολυ- μόρφωι συνθέσει.

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 6th century CE
    Date: 533-540
    Location: Syria: Apameia: East Cathedral: ambulatory

  • SEG 35:1471

    Unknown
    οἰκοδομήματα ἀνηγέιρεν κ(αὶ) στε- γάσας ἐκόσμησεν κ(αὶ) τὸ ἔργον ἐτελί- ωσεν εἰς δόξαν τοῦ π(ατ)ρ(ὸ)ς κ(αὶ) τοῦ υἱοῦ κ(αὶ) τοῦ ἁγίου πν(εύματο)ς, ἰνδ(ικτιῶνος) ιγ τοῦ τοα κατὰ Διοκλητιανὸν ἔτους

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 7th century CE
    Date: after 654-655
    Location: Cyprus: Soloi

  • Michaelides, Cypriot Mosaics 36,38

    Unknown
    ψηφί[δι γρα]πτῇ ποικίλῃ ται {²⁶τε}²⁶ τὴν χρόαν τόπον ψηφί[δι γρα]πτῇ ποικίλῃ ται {²⁶τε}²⁶ τὴν χρόαν τόπον κ̣ο̣σ̣μῆσαι ἁγίων ἐπισκόπων Καρταιρίου χερσὶν προσέταξεν ἀγαθε͂ς ❦ μνήμης Σφυρίδων μεταίχων ἁγίας 5 ἴσος ὁμοίῳ δυνάμι πνευματικῇ. ☩ ἁγίων ἐπισκόπων Καρταιρίου χερσὶν προσέταξεν ἀγαθε͂ς ❦ μνήμης Σφυρίδων μεταίχων ἁγίας 5 ἴσος ὁμοίῳ δυνάμι πνευματικῇ. ☩

    Text Category: Inscription: mosaic
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Location: Cyprus: Tremithous: Basilica of Agios Spyridon

  • I. Cilicie 15

    Unknown
    ☩ ὁ κλῆρος εὐλάβειαν ἐνδεικνύμενος δυσὶν πίναξιν εὐσεβεῖ χορηγίᾳ κοσμοῦσι νηὸν τοῦ θεοῦ λύτρου χάριν, ἐπὶ Ἰωάννου Λητ(ωί)ου ἐπισκόπ(ου). ☩

    Text Category: Inscription: dedication
    Century Range: 6th century CE
    Location: Cilicia: Diokaisareia

  • MAMA I 170

    Gaius Julius Eugenius, bishop
    καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν ἐκλησίαν         ἀνοικοδο[μ]ήσας ἀπὸ θεμελίων καὶ σύνπαντα τὸν περὶ αὐτὴν         κόσμον τ̣ο̣ῦτ’ ἐστιν στοῶν τε καὶ τ[ετ]ραστόων καὶ         ζωγραφιῶ̣[ν] καὶ κεντήσεων κὲ ὑδρείου καὶ προπύλου καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς λιθοξοϊκοῖς ἔργοις

    Text Category: Inscription: epitaph
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 340
    Location: Lycaonia: Laodicaea Combusta