A new Syriac mosaic inscription

John F. Healey

doi:10.1093/jss/fgl005

A new Syriac mosaic inscription

John F. Healey

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The article provides the editio princeps of the Syriac inscription in a mosaic depicting Orpheus which is now in the Dallas Museum of Art. The mosaic is from Edessa and is dated 194 CE. It belongs to a series of such mosaics, but predates the other dated examples by over two decades. The inscription refers to the building of the tomb in which the mosaic was originally located and also mentions the profession of the mosaic-maker who made it, using a Syriac term, rāscombining dot belowōpcombining minus sign belowā, not otherwise attested in Classical Syriac in this sense. © The author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of Manchester. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	313-327
Number of pages	14
Journal	Journal of Semitic Studies
Volume	51
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgl005
Publication status	Published - 2006

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