SEG 26:1629

Item

Text Category
Century Range
Precise Date or Date Range
533-540
Location of Display
Syria: Apameia: East Cathedral: ambulatory
Reference
SEG 26:1629
Quotation
πολλῶν μετ’ ἄλ- λων κ(αὶ) τόπον τὸν ἐνθάδ’ ἐκόσμησε Παῦλος τῆι πολυ- μόρφωι συνθέσει.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Church
Cultic: Building: Church
Object/ Person Ornamented
The floor of the ambulatory behind the altar
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Paving
Visual Work: Opus Sectile
Medium/a Ornamenting
Multi-coloured opus sectile pavement
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Paulos
Bibliography
Donceel-Voute 1988: fig. 190
Leatherbury 2012: 103-104
Notes
This is the same inscription as SEG 38:1555, but the latter has different spacing, making met'allwn into metallwn, "of many mines" - suggesting metals?
Item Identifier
A00704
Determination
Derived directly from text