Description of Letters
a., letter-heights average 0.03 in ll. 1-5 and 0.02 thereafter; letters were apparently designed freehand, and include
both angular and lunate epsilon and sigma (as well as lunate omega),
alpha sometimes with a straight, sometimes with a dropped
bar, and omicron frequently written small. Ligatured
ΩΝ in l. 5; many abbreviations, most of them marked
by a sign—superscript bar, lightning-bolt, s, c, or c (ll. 3-5, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21,
22)—or by raising the final inscribed letter above the text (l. 10). Graffito at
bottom of this face (col. ii), letters 0.06.
b., letter-heights 0.02 throughout, cut between visible guidelines; they are also normally
consistent in form, with lunate epsilon, sigma, and omega, although alpha appears both with straight and dropped bar. Some entried in a later
hand, over erasures (ll. 15, 20, 32, 39, 48), or on the original surface (ll. 5, 8,
30, 58, 60-1). Abbreviations: downward-slanting line attached to rho at the end of l. 23, round dots after the last
inscribed letters in ll. 26, 27, 41, a slanting stroke attached to one in the middle
of l. 48, probably s in l. 32 and c at the end of l. 56. Stops in the form of small
round dots or arrowheads, once a small circle (l. 53). Diaeresis marks, ll. 5, 10,
13, 14, 26-8, 43.
Translation
a. i. God help us. Donors to the soup kitchen. Below are listed the members of the
decany of the students of the law, also known as those who fervently praise God, who
erected, for the relief of suffering in the community, at their personal expense,
this memorial building. Jael, prostates,
with her son Josua,
magistrate, Theodotos, former palace employee, with his son Hilarianos, Samuel,
president of the dekania, a proselyte, Joses, son of Jesseas, Benjamin, the psalm
singer, Judas the good-tempered, Joses, proselyte, Sabbatios, son of Amchios,
Emmonios, godfearer, Antoninos, godfearer, Samuel, son of Politianos, Joseph, son of
Eusebios, proselyte, and Judas, son of Theodoros, and Antipeos, son of Hermias, and
Sabbatios the sweet, and Samuel the older, priest.
a. ii. Samuel the older, from Perge.
b. Serapionos, Joseph, son of Zenon, Zenon, Jacob, Manases, Ioph, Judas, son of
Eusebios, Heortasios, son of Kallikarpos, Biotikos, Judas, son of Amphianos,
Eugenios, goldsmith, Praoilios, Judas, son of Praoilios, Rufos the old, Amantios, son
of Charinos, Murtilos, Jacob, sheepfarmer, Seberos, Euodos, Jason, son of Euodos,
Eusabbathios, greengrocer, Anusios, Eusabbathios, the foreigner, Milo, Oxucholios,
the younger, Diogenes, Eusabbathios, son of Diogenes, Judas, son of Paulos,
Theophilos, Jacob, also called Apellios, Zacharias, mono,
Leontios, son of Leontios, Gemellos, Judas, son of Acholios, Damonikos, Eutarkios,
son of Judas, Joseph, son of Philer, Eusabbathios, son of Eugenios, Kurullos,
Eutuchios, bronze-smith, Joseph, confectioner, Ruben, confectioner, Judas, son of
Hortasios, Eutuchios, poulterer, Judas, also called Zosi, Zenon, recycler, Ammianos,
stockfeeder, Ailianos, son of Ailianos, Ailianos, also called Samuel, Philanthos,
Gorgonios, son of Oxucholios, Heortasios, son of Achilles, Eusabbathios, son of
Oxucholios, Paregorios, Heortasios, son of Zotikos, Sumeon, son of Zenon
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And the following Godfearers: Zenon, councillor, Tertullos, councillor, Diogenes,
councillor, Onesimos, councillor, Zenon, son of Longianos, councillor, Antipeos,
councillor, Antiochos, councillor, Romanos, councillor, Aponerios, councillor,
Eupithios, purple-seller, Strategios, Xanthos, Xanthos, son of Xanthos, Aponerios,
son of Aponerios, Hupsikles son of Mel, Poluchronios, son of
Xanthos, Athenios, son of Ailianos, Kallimorphos, son of Kallimorphos, Junbalos,
Tuchikos, son of Tuchikos, Poluchronios, missile-maker, Chrusippos, Gorgonios,
bronze-smith, Tatianos, son of Oxucholios, Apellas, son of Hegemoneos, Balerianos,
tablet-maker, Eusabbathios, son of Heduchroos, Manikios, son of Attalos, Hortasios,
stone-carver, Brabeus, Klaudianos, son of Kallimorphos, Alexandros, boxer, Appianos,
plasterer, Adolios, mincer, Zotikos, armband-maker, Zotikos, comedian, Eupithios, son
of Eupithios, Patrikios, bronze-smith, Elpidianos, athlete, Heduchroos, Kallinikos,
Balerianos, treasurer, Heuretos, son of Athenagoros, Paramonos, portrait-painter,
Eutuchianos, fuller, Prokopios money-changer, Prunikios, fuller, Stratonikos, fuller,
Athenagoras, carpenter, Meliton, son of Amazonios.