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    inscriptions, epigraphic records, and inscriptions concerning private life. The materials on which early Christian inscriptions were written were the same as...
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    a brief consensus amongst academics that the square was created by early Christians, but the subsequent discoveries at Pompeii led many academics to believe...
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    The inscription of Abercius is the Greek epitaph of Abercius who was probably Bishop of Hieropolis in Phrygia. It is an important example of early Christian...
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    Ichthys (redirect from Christian fish)
    that the symbol was adopted by early Christians as a secret symbol; a shibboleth to determine if another was indeed Christian. It is now known colloquially...
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    Chi Rho (category Early Christian inscriptions)
    was known as the Labarum. Early symbols similar to the Chi Rho were the Staurogram () and the IX monogram (). In pre-Christian times, the Chi-Rho symbol...
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  • debatable because some inscriptions are very short and/or illegible so that it is uncertain whether they qualify as inscriptions at all. The division into...
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    subsequently hardens. Christian catacombs existed as a burial ground for early Christians accompanied by inscriptions and early wall art. Although catacombs...
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    Early Christian art and architecture (or Paleochristian art) is the art produced by Christians, or under Christian patronage, from the earliest period...
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    Nomina sacra (category Early Christian inscriptions)
    that by the end of the 2nd century nomina sacra occur even in Christian tomb inscriptions in Greek in Lycaonia (modern central Turkey). Source: Source:...
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    Epigraphy (redirect from Inscriptions)
    interpret in early Christian and Byzantine inscriptions. Some kind of punctuation is often found in inscriptions of all kinds. In Greek inscriptions a vertical...
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    James Ossuary (category Early Christian inscriptions)
    (2003). "Trois inscriptions araméennes sur ossuaire et leur intérêt historique". Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres...
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    Early Christian sarcophagi are those Ancient Roman sarcophagi carrying inscriptions or carving relating them to early Christianity. They were produced...
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    Piscean. Moreover, the twelve apostles were called the "fishers of men", early Christians called themselves "little fishes", and a code word for Jesus was the...
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    have argued the inscription is actually a depiction of the jackal-headed Egyptian god Anubis. For example, in his book on early Christian history published...
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  • Ancilla Dei (category Early Christian inscriptions)
    the term was used as an address in letters by Augustine. In early Christian inscriptions the title ancilla Dei (Latin for "handmaid of God") is often...
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    cauldrons. Early inscriptions were almost always made with a stylus into a clay mold, from which the bronze itself was then cast. Additional inscriptions were...
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  • History of Christianity in Romania (category Early Christian inscriptions)
    province of Lower Moesia, where many Christians were martyred at the end of the 3rd century. Evidence of Christian communities has been found in the territory...
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    The early medieval history of Ireland, often referred to as Early Christian Ireland, spans the 5th to 8th centuries, from the gradual emergence out of...
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    art, funerary practices, inscriptions, letters, records and even music"), to assert the cult of martyrs did not influence early records because it did not...
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  • olive snails Ancilla Dei, a title given to a deceased woman in early Christian inscriptions All pages with titles beginning with Ancilla This disambiguation...
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    com. Retrieved 28 May 2020. Hutado, Larry (2006). "The staurogram in early Christian manuscripts: the earliest visual reference to the crucified Jesus?"...
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    also Latin and Runic inscriptions, with three additional added in 1949. Sabine Ziegler (1994) lists 344 Gaelic ogham inscriptions known to Macalister (Ireland...
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  • The Yazīd inscription is an early Christian Paleo-Arabic rock carving from the region of as-Samrūnīyyāt, 12 km southeast of Qasr Burqu' in the northeastern...
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    and 1836. The first cuneiform inscriptions published in modern times were copied from the Achaemenid royal inscriptions in the ruins of Persepolis, with...
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  • copper-plate inscriptions. It is written on a small plaque of bronze (a copper alloy). The Taxila and the Kalawan copper-plate inscriptions (c. 1st century...
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    another cause[which?]. In the inscriptions of the Catacombs of Rome and in early Christian literature, the names of Christians in the first three centuries...
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    America. O'Brien Press, Dublin, 1980 Okasha, Elisabeth (2001). Early Christian inscriptions of Munster : a corpus of the inscribed stones. Katherine Forsyth...
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    suggested. Only inscriptions, fragmentary manuscripts and the underwriting of palimpsests survive from the early period. Of the inscriptions, only one can...
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  • Zabad is not found in Islamic-era inscriptions. Jabal Dabub inscription Ri al-Zallalah inscription Ruwafa inscriptions History of Syria Fisher, Greg (2020)...
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    minor inscriptions tend to precede the larger ones, while rock inscriptions generally seem to have been started earlier than the pillar inscriptions: Minor...
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