An inscription for Menas from Kosmiane from Gaza (GAZ0111)
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Title
An inscription for Menas from Kosmiane from Gaza (GAZ0111)
Description
A Greek inscription, perhaps funerary, for Menas from Kosmiane, identified as his sister, from Gaza, dated by letter forms probably to the 5th c. CE (GAZ0211)
Source
Publisher
CIIP3: 2491
Date
Format
Stone
Language
Identifier
GAZ0111
Funerary inscription Item Type Metadata
Dimensions
H 30cm
W 70cm
W 70cm
Diplomatic
(cross) ΜΗΝΑ (palm branch)
(palm branch) ΚΟΣΜΙΑΝΗ (palm branch)
ΚΑΣΟΤΟΥ
(palm branch) ΚΟΣΜΙΑΝΗ (palm branch)
ΚΑΣΟΤΟΥ
Translation
For Menas, Kosmiane his sister
Diplomatic Constituted From
CIIP3
Translation Constituted From
CIIP3
Description
Three line Greek inscription on a black stone slab, broken in two pieces, with traces of red color in the inscribed letters. A cross is located at the beginning of the inscription, and palm branches at the end of lines 2-3 and at the beginning of line 2.
Findspot
House in Gaza
Name 1
Role 1
Name 2
Role 2
Selected Bibliography
=Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, volume III: South Coast: a multi-lingual corpus of the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad, Ameling et. al. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2014. pp.477-478, no.2491
Citation
“An inscription for Menas from Kosmiane from Gaza (GAZ0111),” WIRE: Women in the Roman East Project, accessed April 20, 2024, https://wireproject.org/items/show/193.