Inscription number:
9
Selected bibliography:
53, no. 51, fig. 3 (ed. pr.) | |
299, no. 512 | |
147 | |
838-839, no. 336, fig. 386 (dr.) |
Epigraphical corpora:
SEG 31 (1981): 1429
Inscription type:
epitaph
Location:
Findspot: On a tombstone in the narthex.
Pres. loc.: Not registrated in the records of the IAA, only a scale drawing in file.
Physical description :
The epitaph is incised on a rectangular tombstone, with cross at the beginning and a cross and a palm branch at the end.
Text:
☩ Ἀνεπάε ὡ τρι-
σμακ(άριος) Στέφ-
ανος Ἰωάνν-
4 ου τοῦ βικαρίου
τῇ μηνὸς Ἀπελ(λαίου)
πέμ(π)τι ἰνδ(ικτιῶνος) εʹ ἔτου-
ς φμαʹ. ☩
Translation:
Came to rest the thrice-blessed Stephen, (son) of John the vicarius, on the fifth (day) of the month of Apellaios of the 5th indiction, year 541.
Apparatus:
L.1 ἀνεπά⟨η⟩ ⟨ὁ⟩ phonetic spelling; l.6 πέμ⟨π⟩τ⟨ῃ⟩ assimilation and iotacism.
Given date:
year
month
day of the month
indiction
Date:
21 November 646
Summary:
Dated epitaph of Stephen son of John, on a rectangular tombstone found in the narthex, 21 November 646.
Epigraphical Abbreviations:
diagonal strokes, stigma, double-dotted iota and upsilon
In the Arabian calendar Apellaios began on 17 November; thus the date corresponds to 21 November 646, after the beginning of the 5th indiction. John the vicarius is also mentioned in Inscriptions nos. 10, dated (probably) 607, and no. 11, dated 612; at that time he was active in his office, whereas in the present inscriptions he had probably been long dead, since his son might have lived to old age.