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Epitaph of Basil II

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The Epitaph of Basil II's tomb (976-1025). He was buried in the Church of St John the Evangelist at the Hebdomon Palace.

Sources:
Primary Material
Epitaph of Basil II, Translated by Paul Stephenson (2004)
http://digitalbyzantium.org/trans/epitaph.html
John Skylitzes, A Synopsis of Byzantine History 811-1057,
Translated by John Wortley, (2010).
Yahya of Antioch, Chronicle, volume III (AD1013-1034) edited
by I. Kratchovshy and translated by F. Micheau and G.
Trouppeau in Patrologia Orientalis 47 (1997) 373-559.

Scholarship:
Stephenson, P. (2003) The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer,
Cambridge.

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Epitaph of Basil II

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