Stele of Serapeitis

Stele of Serapeitis
MaterialStone
WritingAncient Greek and Aramaic
Created150 AD
Discovered1940
Armazi
Present locationGeorgian 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, 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. The inscriptions mention Georgian monarchs, Pharnavaz I and Pharasmanes II, and other members of aristocracy. The inscriptions are dated 150 AD. It is known as KAI 276.

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