Djuwaniyeh, Stele II

Two fragments of a stone stele disovered c. 800 m to the east of the town Djuwaniyeh, near a road, probably brought there from the church of St. Sephen.

'+ Boundaries of the asylum of the holy First Martyr Stephen. The 14th of the month of Xanthikos, indiction 2, of the 602nd year.'¹

Sources:

1. Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929, p. 142-143
2. The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity; Paweł Nowakowski, Cult of Saints, E01815 - http://csla.history.ox.ac.uk/record.php?recid=E01815

References

1. ↑+ ὅροι ἀσυ- λίας τοῦ ἁγίου πρω- τομάρτυ- ρος Στεφ- ̣ά̣ν[ου], ̣μη(νὸς) ̣Ξαν- θικ[ο]̣ῦ ιδʹ, ἰν̣δ(ικτιῶνος) βʹ, το<ῦ> βχʹ ἔτους.