Gerasa 327

Item

Text Category
Inscription: mosaic
Century Range
Location of Display
Arabia/ Syria Decapolis: Gerasa
Reference
Gerasa 327
Quotation
[☩ 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.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Church
Cultic: Building: Church
Object/ Person Ornamented
Church of Sts Peter and Paul
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Material: Stone
Visual Work: Mosaic
Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals: Silver
Medium/a Ornamenting
Silver decorations and colourful stones (possibly a mosaic)
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Anastasios
Bibliography
Leatherbury 2018: 392, fig. 5
Rhoby 2009: nr. Me6
Meimaris and Makrigianni 2008: nr. 9
Merkelbach and Stauber 2002: nr. 21/23/05
Welles 1938: 484, nr. 327, pl. 75a
Item Identifier
A00725
Determination
Derived directly from text