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                "site_id": 65,
                "site_uri": "https:\/\/4care-skos.mf.no\/place\/65",
                "site_name": "\u01e6abal Ab\u016b Du\u1e2b\u0101n",
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                "description": "I.Pan du désert 28; SB V 8162; SEG XLIX 1488 [28] descr.\r\nStone slab (granite?) found on the road leading from the temple of Sarapis to the quarries on the mountain known as Lykabettos, near a small granite column, which may have served as a support for the slab. The inscription, after Wilkinson\u02bcs copy (1826) and \u0141ajtar and Wipszycka 1994, reads:\r\n“Katholike church of Melitios Π''Π – I, Didymos of the officium of the eparchy, thankful for this sacred place, restored it, together with Paranios and Panachates, chief quarrymen, and the other craftsmen, during the work of bringing down the columns destined for Jerusalem.”\r\nIn the titulus, the words καθολικ\u03ae and εκκλησ\u03afα are separated from each other by a large (simple) cross, and within each of them is a crux ansata. \r\nSome elements of interpretation suggested by \u0141ajtar and Wipszycka 1994:\r\n- Melitios mentioned in the heading of the inscription can be no one else than the famous heretic from Lykopolis who divided the Egyptian church shortly after Diocletian’s persecutions; he was condemned to work in the quarries of Mons Porphyrites.\r\n- The Melitians used the epithet katholike to underline that their community rather than that of the Athanasians of the nearby church of Bi\u02ber Naq\u0101\u1e6d (I.Pan du désert 27) represented the sole true Church.\r\n- Π''Π interpreted as nomen sacrum for Yahve – rather than an abbreviation π(ραι)π(οσ\u1f77του) (I.Pan, following D. Meredith) or π(\u1f71)π(α) (J. Dummer)\r\n- This “sacred place” (τ\u1ff6\u0345 \u1f01γ\u1f77ω\u0345 τ\u1f79πω\u0345) would be the church itself that was restored by Didymos.",
                "date_from": 300,
                "date_to": 399,
                "dating_criteria": "Dated to 4th c. by Bernand 1977. \u0141ajtar and Wipszycka 1994 note that the mention of the chalasis of the columns intended for Jerusalem is the only element allowing for a more refined date: R. Delbrück suggested to see there an allusion to the works undertaken by Constantine c. 335 – a hypothesis that is possible, but unprovable. In any case, the church was in activity at the same period as the church of Bi\u02ber Naq\u0101\u1e6d (I.Pan du désert 27), located not far away. According to Bernand, this inscription might also be contemporary with I.Pan du désert 29.",
                "selection_criteria": "Mention of Christian cult officials\/institutions,Christian symbols\/gestures\/isopsephy,Nomina sacra",
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                "stratigraphic_context": "",
                "shelf_mark": "",
                "bibliography": "",
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                        "text": "TM 81596",
                        "url": "https:\/\/www.trismegistos.org\/text\/81596"
                    },
                    {
                        "text": "PHI",
                        "url": "https:\/\/epigraphy.packhum.org\/text\/219342"
                    },
                    {
                        "text": "Lajtar and Wipszycka, JJP 1994",
                        "url": "https:\/\/bazhum.muzhp.pl\/czasopismo\/181\/?idvol=6363"
                    }
                ],
                "classes": "Textual",
                "writing_medium": "Inscription",
                "text_content": "Subliterary",
                "language": "Greek",
                "archive": "",
                "authors": [
                    {
                        "author": "Val\u00e9rie Schram",
                        "year": "2021"
                    },
                    {
                        "author": "Victor Ghica",
                        "year": "2021"
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    ]
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