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Pictures of Gaianos inscription (1.3)

1.1 The four ladies (two pictures, A and B)

Picture (A): text 1.1 above, picture (B): text 1.1 below (also visible:text 1.2.)

[ENG] Remember Primilla and Kyriakê ("of the Lord") and Dorothea ("God's gift") and also Khrêstê ("The kind one").

[NED] Gedenk Primilla en Kyriakê ("van de Heer") en Dorothea ("Godsgeschenk") en ook Khrêstê ("De aardige").

[TRSC] MNeeMONEUSATE / PRIMILLeeS KAI KYRI- / AKeeS KAI DooROTHEAS / ETI DE KAI KHReeSTeeS.

Note: ee = eta, oo = omega (this is a WP document)

See also here! ("Armageddon church", by Shahar Cohen).

1.2 Akeptous and the table

[ENG] Akeptous (a woman), the God-loving, offered this table [altar] for (the) god J.C., as a remembrance.

[NED] Akeptous (een vrouw), de godlievende, schonk deze tafel [altaar] voor (de) god Jezus Christus, als een aandenken.

[TRSC] PROSeeNIKEN / AKEPTOUS */ Hee PHILOTHEOS / TeeN TRAPE- / ZAN TH(E)oo(I) * I(EESO)U * KH(RIST)oo(I) / MNeeMOSUNON.

(See also pictures 1.1 (A), (B).) See also here! ("Armageddon church", by Shahar Cohen).

1.3 Gaianos, the 'officer'.

[ENG] <palm branch?> Gaianos, also called Porphyri(o?)s <khi-rho: centurio> our beloved brother

("having sought honour for himself (?)) , from his own money,

had this mosaic made. Brouti(o?)s carried out the work.

[NED] <palmtak?> Gaianos, ook bekend als Porphyri(o?)s <khi-rho: centurio>, onze geliefde broeder/

heeft, (nadat hij zich eer verworven had (?)), uit eigen middelen,

dit mozaïek laten maken. (Brouti(o?)s heeft het werk uitgevoerd.)

[TRANSC] GAIANOS HO KA[I] PORPHURI<o?>S KH-R ADELPHOS HeeMooN PHILOS / TEIMeeSAMENOS EK TooN IDIooN / EPSeePHOLOGeeSEN. BROUTI<o?>S eeRGAS(ATO).

* More pictures: here ('palm branch'), and here, and here. and here. See also here (Word document).

Fish mosaic and base

(The base, 'table/altar (??)', is behind the man on the left, near the "Akeptous" inscription.