Deir el-Muqalik - THEOCTISTUS

Church/Monastery name: 
Deir el-Muqalik - THEOCTISTUS
Inscription number: 
9
Epigraphical corpora: 

SEG 45 (1995): 1965 

CIIP IV.1 (2018): 3169 (dr.)

Inscription type: 
dipinto
Location: 

On a wall in apsis of the cave-church. Visible, through a crack in the upper plaster, on the lower second layer of painted plaster.

Physical description : 

Fragment of a painted inscription. Traces of a frame.

Text: 

[--]+[--]

[--]+OY Στεφα[ν--]

Translation: 

… Stephanus …

Apparatus: 

l.1: The ed. pr. saw an alpha; l.2: [--] σ̣ου Στεφά[νου] ed. pr. (as in: Lord, remember thy servant Stephanus), but the drawing shows the first letter of the line as tau or gamma, certainly not as the lunar sigma used in the name. -- (CIIP)

Summary: 

Invocation (?) of Stephanus on the wall in the apsis of the cave-church.

Contents
Personal names: 
Stephanus
Epigraphical formulae: 
Lord/Christ, remember...