Mowry Jāthūm
Text Information
- Siglum
- Mowry Jāthūm
- Transliteration
- Ο ΒΙΟΣ ΩΥΔ ΕΝ ΕΣΤΙΝ ΔΙΟΜ ΗΔΗΣ ΚΙΘΑΡῼΔ ΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΒΧΟΡΟΣ Κ{Ο}{Υ}{Ρ}ΕΥΣ ΕΞΗΛ ΘΑΝ ΟΙ ΔΥΟ ΕΙΣ ΤΟΝ ΕΡΗ ΜΟΝ ΜΕΤΑ ΣΤΡΑ ΤΗΓΟΥ ΟΠΛΕΙ ΤΩΝ ΚΕ ΕΣ ΤΗΚΑΝ ΕΝ ΓΥΣ ΤΟΠ Ω ΛΕΓΟΜ[Ε] Νῼ ΣΙΟ{Υ} ΑΒΓΑΡ[ΟΥ]
- Translation
- Life is nothing. As for Diomedes the lyrist and Abchoros the barber, the two of them went out into the desert with the commander of the hoplites [foot soldiers] and were stationed near a place called the Cairn of Abgar
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- Mowry line 14: πο[λις] for Schabe: σιο[υ]
- Schwabe, M. Note on the Jathum Inscription. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 135, 1954: 38.
- Mowry, L. A Greek Inscription at Jathum in Transjordan. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 132, 1953: 34-41.
- Site
- Ǧaṯūm, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1950
- Current Location
- In situ
- Script
- Greek
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0056753
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