In the history of old Romanian painting, the icon of Saint John the Baptist with scenes from his life from Budești‑Josani occupies a very important place due to its exceptional artistic quality, as well as the Slavonic inscription with the master’s signature and date. The inscription, in a very poor state of preservation, has already been partially deciphered by acad. Marius Porumb and is now reconstructed with the help of macro photography. The recovered additional information completes the name of the painter, already known as the “full sinner Gheorghe”, with the name of his place of residence, Meleni (in Ukraine) and with the date in 7070 (=1561–1562).