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blessing of the waters, particularly in the Nestorian rite.236 This room (52) faces east and is nearer the rising sun than any other possible room in any building of the town. It is probable that this room was designed in part to provide some sort of setting for the peri of the ceremony connected with the rising of the sun.
There is a passage in the Constitutiones Apostolorum which, though in no context connected with the service of the Epiphany yet fits the service herein postulated
Handwritten: μετὰ τὴν τῶν κατηχουμένων καὶ τὴν τῶν μετανούντων ἔξοδον· προσευχὰν τῷ θεῷ ἐπὶ βεβηκότι ἐπὶ τῶν οὐρανῶν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ κατὰ ἀνατολὰς, 239 ὑπομιμνῄσκοντες καὶ τῆς ἀρχαίας κομῆς τοῦ κατὰ ἀνατολὰς παρὰ Σεῖθον, οὗ ἐν ὀφθῆναι πρῶτος ἀνθρώπος, ἀδετήσας τὴν ἐντολὴν Οφέως ἑκουβλᾶ πειθθεὶς ἀπεβλήθη. 240
Now the Nestorian rite of baptism, is divided into two parts separated by the dismissal of those who had not been baptized, of those catechumens who were not to be baptized and of the penitent.241
Stamp/strikethrough: Thiskxrmmx(52)...
In this room (52), there was, also, probably the dedicatory inscription on the east side of the middle entrance from room(49). Of this inscription, the few letters, preserved when the mosaic was first uncovered, have since disappeared
Handwritten: The connection with the sowing of the arm, implicit in the mosaic referred to finds a more vivid and immediate description in the words of Eusebius of Caesarea ... 237
memories.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain