Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Gaza 0111

Gaza, 496-732 CE. Mosaic. Dedicatory.

Medallion Borders the Inscription and is on the northern end of the Baptistry

496-732 CE Coastal Plain Gaza Jabaliyah Baptistery

In the northern medallion in the western carpet in the baptistery

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Παῦλοςὁ πρεσβύτεροςΟὐλπιάνου υἱὸςεὐχαριστῶν τῷ θεῷ καὶ τοῖςἁγίοις ὐπὲρ σωτηρίας αὐτοῦ καὶ ὑπὲρ ἀναπαύσεως Μαρίας ἀδελφῆς αὐτου ἀιπαρθένου ἐψήφωσεντὸ ἅγιον φωτίσμα.

The priest Paul, son of Oulpianos, giving thanks to God and the Saints, for his salvation and for the repose of his sister Maria the perpetual virgin (nun?), has paved the holy baptistery.

Παῦλος ὁ πρεσβύτερος Οὐλπιάνου υἱὸς εὐχαριστῶν τῷ θεῷ καὶ τοῖς ἁγίοις ὐπὲρ σωτηρίας αὐτοῦ καὶ ὑπὲρ ἀναπαύσεως Μαρίας ἀδελφῆς αὐτου ἀιπαρθένου ἐψήφωσεν τὸ ἅγιον φωτίσμα.

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