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Butler, Howard Crosby; Princeton University [Hrsg.]
Syria: publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904 - 5 and 1909 (Div. 3, Sect. B; 6) — 1922

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Division III Section B Part 6

of these stones belonged together originally. The upper stone is 56 cm. long and
28 cm. high: the lower 42 long and 54 high. The letters on both stones are badly
written and much weathered: they are 4 to 6 cm. high. Copied by Professor Littmann..

6 I C Θ € O \
O < Nd
CTPAYa\

■J.\ :PlCl
ΙΟοΓΙΓΛ
HYI /TAN

Inscr. 1205.


One God who aideth. May he who
wrote this be remembered!

I cannot decipher the inscription on the lower stone with any confidence. Perhaps-
it was Έλεκσί τούς γιγνωσζουτας : He will have mercy upon the discerning, or some such
words. Perhaps, however, this is only a part of a much larger inscription. The early
date may explain the apparently cryptic character of these inscriptions.

1206. House (?), 349—50 a. d. On the lintel of a doorway in the second story
of a small building, probably a house, facing east, in the southwest corner of the
town : in the lower story there was a stable. In the center of the lintel is a disk, in
relief, containing an incised geometrical design enclosing a +. On each side of the
disk is a dovetail plate in relief, the body of the plate being 25 cm. broad and 33 cm.
high. The inscriptions are all incised. Inscr. a is on the left-hand plate, in letters 9
to 10 cm. high. Inscr. b is at the right of this plate, and a little above the level of
the first line of a: it is 25 cm. long and cm. high. Inscr. c is at the left of the
right-hand plate, corresponding with b: it is 18 cm. long and 7 cm. high. Inscr. d is-
on the right-hand plate, in letters 6 to 9 cm. high. All the letters are clear.
A B C D
El ce ETOYC HIT K Al
ΙΧΘΥΕ ECHO ΕΑΤΑ
διττΛΆ
Είς Θ(εός). ΙΧΘΥ Σ. "Ετους η<?τ'. Καί σοζ οσα (λεγείς), τά ώπλα.
One God. J(esus) Ch(rist) (the) S(on) of G(od) (oztr) S(avior). In (the) year 398.
To thee also, whatsoever (thou sayest), (be) the double! (349—50 a. d.)
On Είς Θεός see above under No. 1126 and A. A. E. S. in, p. i8f. On ΙΧΘΥΣ
see No. 1188. On καί σοί κτλ. see No. 1125.

1207. Fragment, built upside down into the foundations of the north corner of
the apse of the chapel at the southeast angle of the church : it is below the present
ground level, with its face towards the interior of the apse. Div. II, b, p. 335. It is
1 m. long and about 23 cm. high. It is broken irregularly through the middle of the
 
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