Stele of Serapeitis | |
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Material | Stone |
Writing | Ancient Greek and Aramaic |
Created | 150 AD |
Discovered | 1940 Armazi |
Present location | Georgian 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.