Bounadry stele found standing upright c. 15 m to the south of the church in Djuwaniyeh.
'Boundaries of the asylum of the holy First Martyr Stephen, granted by our most serene emperor Flavius Justinianus, forever Augustus, under our most holy and most blessed archbishop and patriarch Domninos, our most glorious count (of the East), and most God-beloved Herakleios, Andreas, and Ioannes, the presbyters. ΧΜΓ1
Sources:
- Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929, p. 142
- The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity; Paweł Nowakowski, Cult of Saints, E01815 - http://csla.history.ox.ac.uk/record.php?recid=E01815
References
- ↑ [+ ὅροι ἀσυλίας τοῦ ἁγίου πρωτομάρτυρ(ος) Στεφάνου, φιλοτι- μηθέν(τες) παρὰ τοῦ γαληνοτ(άτου) ἡμῶ(ν) βασιλέως Φλ(αουίου) Ἰουστινιανοῦ τοῦ αἰ- ωνίου Αὐγούστου (καὶ) ἐπὶ τοῦ ἁγιωτ(άτου) (καὶ) μ- ακαριωτ(άτου) ἀρχι- επισκ(όπου) ἡμῶν (καὶ) πατριάρχου Δομνίνου, (καὶ) τοῦ ἐνδοξ(οτάτου) κόμ(ητος) [(καὶ) τῶ]̣ν ̣θεοφ(ιλεστάτων) Ἡρακλείου, Ἀν̣δ̣ρ[έ]- α, (καὶ) Ἰωάννου πρ(εσβυτέρων) ΧΜ[Γ]]