Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Bshe 0163

Beth Shean, Byzantine Period. Mosaic. Poem.

Byzantine Jordan Valley Scythopolis-Beth Shean "sigma plaza" "The room of desire"

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ὄμμασιν ἀστραπτ ΧΕΩ πόθον ΑΙΧΑ ἡμετέροις παιζο προθύροισι ΜΟΛ

With sparkling eyes ...

The content is clearly erotic, taking the form of a poem - beginning in hexameter. Perhaps this was part of a brothel.

ὄμμασιν ἀστραπτ ΧΕΩ πόθον ΑΙΧΑ ἡμετέροις παιζο προθύροισι ΜΟΛ

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