Fig. 59. Syriac inscription on a pillar at the entrance to the Church of the
Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, mentioning ‘Sargis the monk, from Ḥaḥ’. This Sargis
is also known as a scribe, and he became metropolitan bp. of Ḥaḥ in 1505. Above
Sargis’s name are Armenian inscriptions. Photo: Lucas Van Rompay. See
S. Brock, H.
Goldfus, and A. Kofsky, ‘The Syriac inscriptions at the entrance to the Holy
Sepulchre, Jerusalem’, ARAM 18–19 (2006-2007), esp. 417–18.
See entries:
Inscriptions and
Jerusalem.