143, nos. 21-22 (drs.) (ed. pr.) |
On two chalk architectural elements, found in the south court of the church.
Two fragmentary inscriptions. One on a chalk voussoir (44 x 24 cm), rectangular and oval script, letters 4 cm high (A); the other on a chalk block (30 cm high), square alphabet in l.1, oval below, letters 1 cm high (B).
(A) [Ἅγ(ιε) Σ]έργιε̣ [ἐλέησον?]
[τ]ὸ̣ν δοῦλο(ν) σου Προκ-
[ό]π̣ιος Στεφάνου
[-]ΣΜΗΚΗΓΑΓΟΡΑΣ.
(B) [Ἅγι]ε Σέργι(ε) καὶ ἅγιε Γεώργι(ε) σώσατε [ - - - ]
[ - - ]ου καὶ τὰ τέκν̣α α[ὐτ]οῦ κ[αὶ - - κ]αὶ Παῦλ[ον - - ]
[δ]ούλ(ην) σ[ου] κα[ὶ] ΑΝΗ αὐτῆς υἱὸ[ν? - - - ]
[κ(αὶ)] ὅλον τὸν κόσμον. ☩
(A) Holy Sergius, [pity?] thy servant Procopius (son) of Stephen . . .
(B) Holy Sergius and Holy George, save . . . and his children . . . and Paul . . . thy servant and her son . . . and the whole world. (Kirk–Welles)
(A) l.4: perhaps κ(αὶ) Ἠσαγόρας "and Isagoras" Kirk–Welles.
Two dedicatory (?) invocations of St. Sergius and George on chalk architectural elements, found in the south court of the church.
Three other dedications were found in the south court, on a limestone slab in the floor (Kirk–Welles, no. 19), on a short marble column (no. 20), and on a chalk fragment (no. 23), with the names of Sergius, Epimachus son of Ieeas, and Malchus.