[B-Greek] Abraham's Epitaph
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Mon Nov 9 19:52:29 EST 2009
On Nov 9, 2009, at 7:44 PM, Mark Lightman wrote:
> This makes sense to me, thanks.
Yes, I would agree with this too. Upon thinking over the forms
QWMASIAN and ANASTASIAN I thought I recognized a feminine form of the
name Thomas and a forebear of the last Czar''s daughter. It looks like
the identifiably declinable forms are accusatives; ABLALA is not
ABLABIA. It would seem rather that we have a whole slew of people who
are objects of an imperative BOHQEI addressed to hAGIOS ABRAAM.
Carl W. Conrad
> FWSFOROS MARKOS
>
> --- On Mon, 11/9/09, Kevin P. Edgecomb <kevin at bombaxo.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Kevin P. Edgecomb <kevin at bombaxo.com>
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Abraham's Epitaph
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, November 9, 2009, 4:05 PM
>
>
> Here's what I see:
>
> AGIE ABRAAMA BWHQI TON DOULON SOU NILON TON DMARMARARHN KAI AGAQHMERON
> KAI UGIAN KAI WMABIC KAI QWMACIAN KAI ABLALA KAI ANASTASIAN
>
> I would take that string of accusatives as all representing names, as
> well: Holy/Saint Abraam, help your servant Nilos of Marmarares, and
> Agathemeron, and Ygias, and Omabis, and Thomasian, and Ablala, and
> Anastasias.
>
> This is similar to various inscriptions found in church mosaics, where
> a donor and family members are recorded. This would originally have
> been such a plaque with the same kind of border as those inscriptions,
> with a rhomboid shape projecting from either side of the border.
> Traces of the left one are apparent in the photo.
>
> Regards,
> Kevin P. Edgecomb
> Berkeley, California
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