55, no. 57, ph. 48, fig. 8 (ed. pr.) | |
297, no. 506 | |
147 | |
847-848, no. 342, figs. 392 A-B (ph., dr.) |
SEG 31 (1981): 1436
Findspot: On a tombstone in the baptistry.
Pres. loc.: IAA, neg. no. 89.070, scale drawing in file.
Bottom epitaph on the same stone as Inscription no. 11. The letters are smaller and more cramped, with square sigma and epsilon. The cursive delta in ἰνδ(ικτιῶνος) is noteworthy. The text begins with a cross and ends with another followed by a palm branch.
☩ Ἐνθάδε κατάκειται ὁ μακάριος
Στέφανος Γεωργίου πρεσβ(υτέρου) καὶ Ἀ-
βρααμίου ἀδελφοῦ ἐν μηνὶ Δίου κβʹ
ἰνδ(ικτιῶνος) βʹ ἔτους φληʹ. ☩ (palm)
Here lies the blessed Stephen (son) of George, priest and brother of Abraham, in the month of Dios the 22nd, indiction 2, year 538.
L.2 πρεσβ(υτέρου) Pleket (SEG), πρεσβ(ύτερος) Negev, Meimaris.
Dated epitaph of Stephen son of George, on the lower part of a tombstone found in the baptistry, 8 November 643.
22 Dios 538 corresponds to 8 November 643, which fell in the 2nd indiction. Stephen was laid in the same tomb as the child Abraham, who was brother of Stephen's father, George the priest. Stephen may have been a child himself. His father, George, was one of the sons of John the vicarius: a third son, Stephen, was buried in the narthex on 21 November 646 (see Inscription no. 9).