Kourion Complex Palace (Mosaics) Fales, c. 1955 (1 of 2)De C. Fales (probably)

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[handwritten: also,] something positive[handwritten: xxx], but, because the words [handwritten: ßōµoi ƺ̈ūµ] [handwritten: 6'mata] necessitate a primary, literal inter-[handwritten: ?] [handwritten: xxx]pretation. The [handwritten: 6'mata] [handwritten: ?] should[handwritten: ,] be both visible and an integral part of the building. As most of the building except the baths proper was of post and lintel construction, the ceiling and/or under sides of the roofs may [handwritten: xxx]xxx be safely excluded as a location for symbols. There remain the walls and the floors. If there were symbols on the walls, they might have been painted on the plaster-plaster may have covered much of the inner [handwritten: xx] surface of the walls-or they may have been carved on some of the mosre substantial [handwritten: xx] stones. Crosses are carved on some of the stones found in a bath near Salona. However, no such stones were found on still stencing walls, [handwritten: still stencing]

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our building. As no plaster was found on scattered stones showed and the small amounts found on scattered stones showed no symbols, Christian or otherwise, that these signs were on the walls must remain an unproved hypothesis-somewhat improbable [handwritten: xx] because a mosaic inscription on the floor would normally be expected to refer to the [handwritten: xxx] mosaic floor and not to murals. While this inscription because of its position outside of the border of the mosaic and because of the plural of the word [handwritten: ßōµoi] must apply to the whole building, it must, also, [handwritten: xxx] thereby, apply to this room (49). If it applies to this room, the signs must surely have been on the floor, for on the east wall, the three doors into