79*-80*, nos. 6-7, fig. 8 (ph.) (ed. pr.) | |
597-598, no. 659 (Feissel) | |
43, no. 49 |
AE 1996: 1568
SEG 46 (1996): 2009
Over two separate mosaic panels in the eastern part of the nave, in front of the bema.
Mosaic inscription written across two separate square panels, six lines each, on both sides of another square decorative panel.
(palm branch) Ἀρχιποιμὴν ἐκ
Θ(εο)ῦ γέγονεν ἡ̣[μῖ]ν̣
Μακαιδόν̣[ιος ὁ ὁ-]
4 σιώτ(ατος) ἐπίσ̣[κοπος],
ὅθεν ἐπ’ α̣[ὐτοῦ]
ναοί άν[εγείρονται]
καὶ λαμπροίνο(ν)-
ται καὶ οἱ ἅγιοι
κοσμοῦνται καὶ
4 ὁ λαὸς ἁγάλλετ(αι)
διαμεῖναι τῇ
ἀγέλῃ αὐτοῦ.
By God has become our chief-shepherd Makaid[onios] the pious bishop, so that in [his] time churches are e[rected] and are graced and the saints are adorned and the people rejoice dwelling in its flock. (Tzaferis)
Laudatory inscription for bishop Makaidonios over two six-line mosaic panels in the eastern part of the nave.
L.1. ἀρχιποιμήν: surprising epithet, not epigraphically attested, for a non-metropolitan bishop. (Feissel)