Terracotta baptismal font, found in the basilica at Galata.  Part of an openwork inscription, (A), survives below the upper rim; the remaining part, (B), has been reconstructed (unintelligible).
[ ] Moesia Inferior — Odessos (Varna) — Galata — 5th/6th c. AD — CArch 17 (1967) 46; 47, figs. 1-2 — RAC 61 (1985) 306-307 — CArch 51 (2005/05) 7
A.1 [τοῦ ἁγίου μάρτυρος — — —] καὶ τῆς συνοδίη[ς] αὐ[τοῦ]
B.1 ΕΓΕΗΕΗΧVΗΕΙΕΘ  {²... ἐνδύνει ἐν θ[ερμῷ] (interpr. of S. Olteanu)}².
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