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Handwritten: Ἑαυτάς.
Handwritten: κοσμίως, μετὰ αἰδοῦς καὶ σωφροσύνης κοσμεῖν. 2:48
The proclamation of the existence of some form of morality was not the only purpose of this inscription. However, before considering the purpose of the inscription, [handwritten: ἐξέδρα][handwritten: 3] [handwritten: further] and [handwritten: location] must first be located. [handwritten: ἐξέδρα] is part of a building. Since it is the first word of the inscription, one may reasonably assume that it denotes the room in which it is placed. There [handwritten: are] one generic name of the room in which it is placed in the cruciform church at Chaoussie near to Antioch, three mosaic inscriptions-one dated, 387- with the same word, [handwritten: ἐξέδρα] [handwritten: 250] [handwritten: 249] In these inscriptions, it [handwritten: must can not put] mean the oblong rooms which [handwritten: 251] extend out from the square central chancel. Two of the inscriptions with the word [handwritten: ἐξέδρα] are placed next to the central chancel and are to be read with the reader facing into the [handwritten: mxxx] center of the [handwritten: mxxx] building. [handwritten: 252] The location of our inscription is somewhat similar, [handwritten: xx] for [handwritten: xxixx] it is placed at one end of the oblong room (49). As in the inscriptions in the church at Chaoussie, [handwritten: ἐξέδρα] denotes the oblong rooms which extend out from the central square, so here in
Handwritten: chancel
our building, it probably denotes the oblong room (49), on the side of the inner, approximately square court (13-17). As [handwritten: ἐξέδρα] may be part of a church, it is not impossible that the room in our building formed the setting for a religious performance. This [handwritten: ἐξέδρα] is tended by at least two
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain