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Caesarea, Fourth to mid seventh century CE. Plaque. Funerary.
Both faces are smooth, the sides rougher and beveled inward toward the back. The upper left corner has broken off, with the first letters in the first two lines of an epitaph in five lines. The last line, shorter than the rest, is centered.
Letters are quite irregular, with clumsy serifs
Observed in 1942 in a wall of the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.
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φῶν.
The tomb of
Kleopas and the author of Νέα Σιών (1942) showed crosses at the beginning and end of the inscription, and indicated no breakage; but there are no crosses on the stone as preserved, and the break looks ancient and well worn. The latter author also showed crosses on Caes 1059, and they most definitely were never there. There is, however, room to restore a cross in line 1; indeed, the left margin cannot be preserved without it. This consideration prompts the restoration of this epitaph as Christian.