RT Article
T1 A new Armenian inscription from a Byzantine monastery on mt. Scopus, Jerusalem
JF Israel exploration journal
VO 61
IS 2
SP 230
OP 235
A1 Stone, Michael E. 1938-
A2 ʿAmit, Daṿid 1948-2013
A2 Seligman, Jon
A2 Zilberbod, Irina
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1589737687
AB The remains of a large fifth–eighth-century CE monastery and pilgrim hostel, excavated on the eastern slope of Mt. Scopus, include agricultural facilities, stables, halls, a sophisticated water system, a large bathhouse and a church complex. The latter consists of church and a probable baptistery, both faced by an entry hall that covered an underground water cistern. Near the mouth of a cistern, an Armenian mosaic inscription was discovered. It is composed of the name Grigor (i.e., Gregory), two mostly destroyed letters, and what is apparently the nomen sacrum 'Christ'. The cross at the beginning and the nomen sacrum at the end are in red; the other letters are black. On the basis of coins uncovered below the mosaic, we date the inscription to the sixth century. It constitutes a significant addition to the information about Armenian presence on the ridge of Mt. Scopus and the Mount of Olives and to the corpus of early Armenian mosaic inscriptions from Jerusalem.
K1 Inschrift
K1 Jerusalem
K1 Armenien