>Here lies, the slave of god, Plato, Honoured by [?] Eighteenth Hours, Following Agrios
I believe it is Christian, due to the use of singular god, and the use of “Presbys”, which reminds of “Presbyteros” a term for clergymen. That it is a person named “Plato” should not surprise, being connected to Christianity, there are Christians recorded named as such, like Saint Platon of Sakkoudion of the 8th century AD.
I am mostly curious on “Agrios”. It might be a demonym, out of a place potentially named as “Agria”. If you happened to find this in Eastern Thrace (since I see you are Turkish), perhaps it might be connected to the Agrioi / Agrianes, a Thracian tribe that once spread across the Rhodope Mountains and the adjacent lands. There is also theory they gave their name to the Agrianes River, mutated in Turkish into “Ergine River”, which is in the South-East Eastern Thrace.
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If you dig a little bit you’ll find a human skeleton 🙂
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“here lies the servant of god (??) of Thepatrous (the rest is difficult to read)
If I had a nickel for every time a Turkish redditor posted about Greek Graves/Sites I’d have a lot of nickels and thats concerning and sad because it happens very often.
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Here lies the Servant of God and then a name I can’t make out. It’s a tombstone most probably and seems like it may have archaeological value
Edit: if I am not mistaken, it is also misspelled which is interesting since it points to the social status of the deceased or his family
Edit2: I am neither a linguist nor an archaeologist so I may be way off but the way this is written down makes me think it may even be early Christian
This is the best I could do:
>ΕΝΘΑΔΕ-ΚΑΤΑΚΙΤΕ-Ο / ΔΟΥΛΟΣ -ΤΟΥ-ΘΕ / ΟΥ-ΠΛΑΤΩΝΟ-ΠΡΕC
>BΑ-TOY- [?] ΔΕΚΑΘΟCΤΟ / ΩΡΕΤΙ – [A?] CKΟΛΟΘ
>ΑΓΡΙΟΥ
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Rough translated by word:
>Here lies, the slave of god, Plato, Honoured by [?] Eighteenth Hours, Following Agrios
I believe it is Christian, due to the use of singular god, and the use of “Presbys”, which reminds of “Presbyteros” a term for clergymen. That it is a person named “Plato” should not surprise, being connected to Christianity, there are Christians recorded named as such, like Saint Platon of Sakkoudion of the 8th century AD.
I am mostly curious on “Agrios”. It might be a demonym, out of a place potentially named as “Agria”. If you happened to find this in Eastern Thrace (since I see you are Turkish), perhaps it might be connected to the Agrioi / Agrianes, a Thracian tribe that once spread across the Rhodope Mountains and the adjacent lands. There is also theory they gave their name to the Agrianes River, mutated in Turkish into “Ergine River”, which is in the South-East Eastern Thrace.
If you dig a little bit you’ll find a human skeleton 🙂
“here lies the servant of god (??) of Thepatrous (the rest is difficult to read)
If I had a nickel for every time a Turkish redditor posted about Greek Graves/Sites I’d have a lot of nickels and thats concerning and sad because it happens very often.
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