Quotation from a homily attributed to John Chrysostom.  Two adjoining plaques of whitish marble (or two fragments of the same plaque).
[ ] Aeg. Islands — Ikaria — Oine (Kampos) — 5th/6th c. AD — E.I. Stamatiades, Ikariaka (1893) 22 (b) — Epigraphes Ikarias (2003) 59, 30 (a + b) — SEG 53.899
1 πάλιν εἱ Ἑρ[ω]δη<ὰ>ς μένετε,
πάλιν ὀρ[χ]ῆτε, ἄρα μημᾶ-
τε τὴν Εἰε[ζ]αβελ τὴν τῶν
προφητῶ̣[ν] φονεύτριαν.
Feissel, interpr.1 πάλιν ἡ Ἡρωδιὰς μαίνεται,
πάλιν ὀρχεῖται, ἄρα μιμεῖ-
ται τὴν Ἰεζαβελ τὴν τῶν
προφητῶν φονεύτριαν.
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