Church/Monastery name:
Bethlehem - The Nativity: Justinian church
Inscription number:
2
Inscription type:
commemorative
grafitto
invocation/prayer
On a moveable object:
chancel screen
Summary:
Numerous Greek grafitti with crosses and Christian formulae incised on the walls (CIIP IV.1 nos. 3220-24, 3226); fragment of a Greek commemorative inscription on a piece of a chancel screen, found in secondary use in the caves below the basilica (no. 3225); and a marble plaque with an illegible Armenian inscription, possibly medieval, found in one of the underground grottos (no. 3227), all not included.