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Armazi stele of Serapit
Armazi Bilingual.jpg
MaterialStone
WritingAncient Greek and Aramaic
Created150 AD
Discovered1940
PlaceArmazi
Present locationGeorgian National Museum, Tbilisi

The Armazi stele of Serapit (Georgian: სერაფიტას არმაზის სტელა) or Armazi bilingual (Georgian: არმაზის ბილინგვა) is a funerary stele with bilingual inscriptions written in Ancient Greek and Armazic, 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 Serapit.[1] The inscriptions mention Georgian monarchs, Pharnavaz I of Iberia and Pharasmanes II of Iberia, and other members of aristocracy. The inscriptions are dated 150 AD.[2][3]

Inscriptions

Ancient Greek inscription

Aramaic inscription

References

  1. Lang, p. 4
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Rapp, p. 216
  3. Lang, p. 5

Bibliography

  • Stephen H. Rapp Jr (2014) The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature
  • David Marshall Lang (1966) Landmarks in Georgian Literature

Further reading

  • Giorgi Tsereteli (1942) Armazi Bilingual, XIII, Tbilisi
  • Akaki Shanidze (1941) Bilinguals from Armazi, V. II, Tbilisi
  • Simon Kaukhchishvili (1941) Greek inscriptions of Armazi, V. II, Tbilisi