E02938: Limestone reliquary with a Greek inscription recording the presence of relics of *Sergios (soldier and martyr of Rusafa, S00023) and naming donors, including a marble-mason. Unknown provenance, probably Syria/Phoenicia or Palestine. Probably 6th-7th c.

Limestone reliquary shaped as a small sarcophagus with a basin for collecting effluents, probably holy oil. Unknown provenance. First published by Leah Di Segni in 2007, in the catalogue of an exhibition at the Bible Land Museum in Jerusalem.

Inscription A (on the front wide face of the chest):

+ θήκη τοῦ ἁγίου Σεργί[ου]·
ὑπὲρ σωτηρίας Ἀνύσωνος
τοῦ φιλοχρίστου τοῦ ποι<ή>σαντος

'+ Sarcophagus (theke) of Saint Sergios. As a vow for the salvation of Anyson, the Christ-loving, who made it.'

Inscription B (to the right of inscription A, on the narrow face):

[μνήσθητι Κ(ύρι)ε (?) Μαρί]ας κ(αὶ) Δανιὴλ
[κ(αὶ) - - - κ(αὶ) Ἀθα]νασίας κ(αὶ) Σεργίου
κ(αὶ) Πέτρου τοῦ μαρμαραρίου ̣κ(αὶ) Ἀναί[α]

3. Ἀναί[α] or Ἀνά̣ν[ου] Di Segni

'[Remember, O Lord,] Maria, and Daniel, [and - - - and] Athanasia, and Sergios, and Petros the marble-mason (marmararios), and Anaias (?)!'

Text: Di Segni 2007, no. 75.