L'épigraphie des mosaïques d'églises en Syrie et au Liban. A propos de: P. Donceel-Voûte, Les pavements des églises byzantines de Syrie et du Liban. Décor, archéologie et liturgie

This selective review starts from the systematical inventory on which P. Donceel-Voûte entered 77 monuments from antic towns and mainly villages in Syria and Lebanon. The epigraphist will be interested in noticing the multiplication of the inscribed mosaics which have been found in regular excavations during the last thirty years, not to overlook those 'wandering' mosaics registered on the antiquary market. Here are reviewed, in geographical order, the main new inscriptions published in the above-mentioned work, with the addition of some still unpublished documents (see nos 19, 25, 32). Critical remarks are aimed at providing corrections or restitutions to several texts, sometimeso n points related to then terpretation of these monuments(see nos 45, 54). The commentary equally deals with the status of some dedicants, according to the stone epigraphy from the same villages (see nos 18, 39). A major emphasis is put on the prosopography of bishops mentioned on the mosaics, the provenance and date of which directly matter for restoring the fasti. More specially, a provisional updating of the Apamean episcopal list is proposed [Auteur. Trad. J.-M. C.].