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# The Bread That Outlived the Byzantine Empire
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/khleb-perezhivshii-vizantiiskuiu-imperiiu/
- Published: 2025-10-12T18:39:40.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:28:25.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archaeology, Faith, The East

Scarcely credible, but excavations at the ancient city of Irenopolis in Turkey have turned up a 1,300-year-old loaf of bread that has survived to this day.

The Byzantine loaves have come down to us with a stamp and a Greek inscription, which may indicate that they were intended for communion. The bread bears an image of Jesus and an inscription in Greek: "With gratitude, to Holy Jesus."

![](https://theparnassian.com/content/images/2026/09/photo_18296@12-10-2025_21-39-40.jpg)