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	<title>Comments on: Help reading a Christian inscription spotted in Imma (near Antioch)</title>
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		<title>By: K. Rigsby</title>
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		<dc:creator>K. Rigsby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This looks plausible. I&#039;d leave the archbishop&#039;s name unrestored--there are too many Philo- names possible.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This looks plausible. I&#8217;d leave the archbishop&#8217;s name unrestored&#8211;there are too many Philo- names possible.</p>
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		<title>By: PaulIversen</title>
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		<dc:creator>PaulIversen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How about this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.currentepigraphy.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/imma2.jpg&quot; title=&quot;imma2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;revised text&lt;/a&gt;?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How about this <a href="http://www.currentepigraphy.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/imma2.jpg" title="imma2.jpg" rel="nofollow">revised text</a>?</p>
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		<title>By: K. Rigsby</title>
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		<dc:creator>K. Rigsby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Line 1: ok; but what would a month be doing in the first line?
3-4: could be οὗτ&#124;[ος ὁ τόπος/οἶκος/ναός
5: my error, of course 880.  ΠΦ does look better; but I can&#039;t make out what follows.  If 580, then not territory of Antioch, yes?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Line 1: ok; but what would a month be doing in the first line?<br />
3-4: could be οὗτ|[ος ὁ τόπος/οἶκος/ναός<br />
5: my error, of course 880.  ΠΦ does look better; but I can&#8217;t make out what follows.  If 580, then not territory of Antioch, yes?</p>
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		<title>By: PaulIversen</title>
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		<dc:creator>PaulIversen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Professor Rigsby,

Thank you for your comments.  I believe the letter in question in line 1 is inscribed like a μ (miniscule mu) -- a very common form on late inscriptions (and of course on papyri).  I&#039;m reasonably certain of the reading of the first and second lines.  There are several examples of this formula in Christian literary sources.

I&#039;ll have to think some more about your suggestion for line 3 -- it looks quite promising. However, if right, it makes the ουτ(-) or θυτ(-)  that follows very enigmatic.

I believe you have solved the riddle of the beginning of line 5.  In fact, I now see the lower horizontal of the delta.  I would now restore something like:

[- - - - - - - - - lei]tourgesantos
[presb(uterou) kai/ke p]eriod(eutou).  etous Π??.

As for the year,  πω would yield 880 (= A.D. 568/9), not 890, right?

I wonder whether the second letter might not be a phi, so we have ΠΦ = 580.  But then there would be two traces after this. Could these two traces be the abbreviation i(ndiktionos) ι&#039;?  The overline over these last two traces also seems to be higher, perhaps indicating they belong to a different dating system.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Professor Rigsby,</p>
<p>Thank you for your comments.  I believe the letter in question in line 1 is inscribed like a μ (miniscule mu) &#8212; a very common form on late inscriptions (and of course on papyri).  I&#8217;m reasonably certain of the reading of the first and second lines.  There are several examples of this formula in Christian literary sources.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll have to think some more about your suggestion for line 3 &#8212; it looks quite promising. However, if right, it makes the ουτ(-) or θυτ(-)  that follows very enigmatic.</p>
<p>I believe you have solved the riddle of the beginning of line 5.  In fact, I now see the lower horizontal of the delta.  I would now restore something like:</p>
<p>[- - - - - - - - - lei]tourgesantos<br />
[presb(uterou) kai/ke p]eriod(eutou).  etous Π??.</p>
<p>As for the year,  πω would yield 880 (= A.D. 568/9), not 890, right?</p>
<p>I wonder whether the second letter might not be a phi, so we have ΠΦ = 580.  But then there would be two traces after this. Could these two traces be the abbreviation i(ndiktionos) ι&#8217;?  The overline over these last two traces also seems to be higher, perhaps indicating they belong to a different dating system.</p>
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		<title>By: K. Rigsby</title>
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		<dc:creator>K. Rigsby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Line 1: maybe aiwnion estw?  I can&#039;t make out a M.
In line 3, epenohqh 
In line 5, [p]eriode(utou). Year pw = 890 Sel. = A.D. 578/9, but maybe there is another letter after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Line 1: maybe aiwnion estw?  I can&#8217;t make out a M.<br />
In line 3, epenohqh<br />
In line 5, [p]eriode(utou). Year pw = 890 Sel. = A.D. 578/9, but maybe there is another letter after?</p>
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