Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Bsaf 0002

Beit Safafa, 596-701. Mosaic. Dedicatory.

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596-701 CE Judaea Beit Safafa Chapel at Kh. Sheibun

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+ Ἐγένετο τὸ πᾶν ἔργον τῆς ἀνεγέρσεως τοῦ οἴκου τῶν ἁγίων μαρτύρων ὑπὲρ σωτηρίας καὶ ἀντιλήμψεως Σαμουήλου καὶ τῶν αὐτοῦ διαφερόντων καὶ ὑπὲρ ἀναπαύσεως τῶν πολυβότων, ἐν μηνὶ Ἰουνίῳ ἰνδικτιῶνος ιδʹ ἔτους ϛσʹ.

The whole work of the erection of the house of the holy martyrs was accomplished for the salvation and the succour of Samuel and his family, and for the rest of the predeceased(?), in the month of June of the fourteenth indiction, year 206 (?).

Ἐγένετο τὸ πᾶν ἔργον τῆς ἀνεγέρσεως τοῦ οἴκου τῶν ἁγίων μαρτύρων ὑπὲρ σωτηρίας καὶ ἀντιλήμψεως Σαμουήλου καὶ τῶν αὐτοῦ διαφερόντων καὶ ὑπὲρ ἀναπαύσεως τῶν πολυβότων, ἐν μηνὶ Ἰουνίῳ ἰνδικτιῶνος ιδʹ ἔτους ϛσʹ

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