Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Caesarea. Late fifth century, CE. Inscribed medallion in an elaborate tesselated pavement.

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Two crosses Beginning and end of the inscription Two branches with pomegranates Above and below the inscription 450-500 Coastal Plain Caesarea

In the southern part of a room in a villa about 1.2 km northeast of the harbor (map ref. 1409/2127), next to caes0130.

in situ?

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 Creation Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value. added image, minor transcription corrections Zev Radovan

+ Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς εὐλογήσει τὸν σῖτόν σου καὶ τὸν οἶνόν σου καὶ τὸ ἔλεόν σου καὶ πληθυνεῖ. ἀμήν. +

The Lord God will bless your grain and your wine and your oil and he will multiply it. Amen.

Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς εὐλογήσει τὸν σῖτόν σου καὶ τὸν οἶνόν σου καὶ τὸ ἔλεόν σου καὶ πληθυνεῖ. ἀμήν.

One of two inscribed medeallions in an elaborate tesselated pavement. Tesserae are white, gray, black, yellow, green and two shades of red, 65 tessera to 100 cm². Dimesniosn given are just the diameter of the medallion. The entire pavement is 6.80 wide and 7.20 long. The medallion has an elaborate border 0.20 wide of white vines on a black field. At the begnning and end are crosses; above and below are branches with pomegranates. The nomina sacra are abbreviated by suspension and marked with bars.

plate LXXXVIII, no. 129 9 216-221 plate 47, fig. a no. 145