Set In Stone: 1,500-Year-Old ‘Christ, Born Of Mary’ Inscription Found
Set In Stone: 1,500-Year-Old ‘Christ, Born Of Mary’ Inscription Found
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A Greek inscription dedicated to “Christ born of Mary” was discovered during Israel Antiquities Authority excavations in the village of et-Taiyiba in the Jezreel Valley.
Engraved in stone, the inscription comes from the frame of an entrance door of what appears to be a church dating from the Byzantine period (late 5th century CE).
According to Leah Di-Segni, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, this dedicatory inscription would have been engraved while casting the foundations of the church.
The inscription.
Israel Antiquities Authority excavations in the village of et-Taiyiba in the Jezreel Valley recently unearthed an inscription dedicated to “Jesus, the Son of Mary.” The Greek inscription, engraved in stone, comes from the frame of an entrance door dating from the Byzantine period (late fifth century CE). It was discovered incorporated in secondary use in one of the walls of a magnificent building dating from the Byzantine or Early Islamic period, where the excavations uncovered two rooms containing mosaic pavements with a geometric design.
The inscription was recovered in an archaeological excavation directed by Tzachi Lang and Kojan Haku of the IAA before the construction of a road inside the village. As part of the IAAâs policy of increasing public interest in archaeology, students, volunteers and workers from the local community, participated in the excavation.
Amanda Borschel-Dan is The Times of Israel s Jewish World and Archaeology editor.
A late 5th century CE Greek inscription, Christ born of Mary, recently found in the village of et-Taiyiba (Taibe) in the Jezreel Valley. (Tzachi Lang/Israel Antiquities Authority)
A Islamic period building in which a late 5th century CE Greek inscription, Christ born of Mary, was found in secondary use, excavated in the village of et-Taiyiba (Taybeh) in the Jezreel Valley. (Tzachi Lang/Israel Antiquities Authority)
Students from the Hanaton pre-military preparatory program work on the excavation of an Islamic period building in which a late 5th century CE Greek inscription, Christ born of Mary, was found in secondary use, in the village of et-Taiyiba (Taybeh) in the Jezreel Valley. (Einat Ambar-Armon/Israel Antiquities Authority)
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Greek inscription from a church reused in a family home mentions Christ born of Mary Credit: Tzachi Lang / Israel Antiquities Authority
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Jan. 21, 2021
Around 1,500 years ago, a beautiful family home was going up in the village of et-Taiyiba in the Jezreel Valley. As befitted a beautiful family home in the late Byzantine or early Islamic period in Palestine, the floors were tiled with decorative mosaics and the walls were suitably thick. And one of the walls of this manse incorporated a repurposed fragment of lintel from a local church, which bore an inscription in Greek.
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