Narran, 6th century CE. Mosaic. Dedicatory.
Black tesserae
Panel three of the mosaic carpet, to the right of narr0010
Taxonomies for IIP controlled values
דכי
דיר לטב מרות
ברה דהנון מתחזקין בת
Remembered for good Marutha [(and?) ...]tinah and Jacob His son, that they donated for the repair of the place. Their portion is in their holy place. Amen.
"As Naveh points out, the meaning of the beginning of the inscription is unclear. There is no doubt that these are the letters as they appear (see fig. 31), so it seems there is a spelling error. The דכי is not in line with the rest of the inscription, suggesting that it was added later, although the surrounding tesserae fit together well. Avi-Yonah suggested reading דכי/דיר as דכי/רין, an obvious error of two letters in this common formulaic phrase. In addition to this mistake, there appear to be a few letters missing from the first word in the last line, חול]קהון]. The name “Marutha” in the second line is evidenced in Jewish usage in its Greek form, Μαρουθα, at Caesarea."