Stele of Serapeitis

Stele of Serapeitis
MaterialStone
WritingAncient Greek and Aramaic
Created150 AD
Discovered1940
Armazi
Present locationGeorgian National Museum, Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi, Georgia

The Stele of Serapeitis[a] (Georgian: სერაფიტას სტელა) is a funerary stele with bilingual inscriptions written in Ancient Greek and Armazic,[1] a local idiom of Aramaic, found in 1940, at Armazi, near Mtskheta, in the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Iberia. The stele memorialises a short-lived Georgian princess named Serapeitis.[2] The inscriptions mention Georgian monarchs, Pharnavaz I and Pharasmanes II, and other members of aristocracy.[3] The inscriptions are dated 150 AD.[4][5] It is known as KAI 276.

  1. ^ Opper, p. 152
  2. ^ Lang, p. 4
  3. ^ Rapp, p. 216
  4. ^ Lang, p. 5
  5. ^ Rapp, p. 64