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

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have served as a place for the bishop's throne, as did a somewhat similar niche in the baptistery at Salona. Nor is

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this [handwritten: attribu]attributing attributing too great a significance to this niche. Directly east of the east side of the north pilaster, the pattern of the mosaic is different from that against the north and south sides. This different pattern emphasizes and as it were extends the pilaster far-

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ther to the east. The south pilaster and the mosaic around

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it were destroyed before excavation; [handwritten: found destroyed.]

The area of the two middle panels between the niche on

Handwritten: room (40)

one side and the bath and the apodyterion on the other, set

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off from the rest by the surrounding border, would have served

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as a place for the catechumens to stand before and after bap-

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tism. The apodyterion would have served as a place to dis-

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robe and its location next to the entrance was xxx according to Cyril of Jerusalem symbolic of the putting off of the old man with the old clothes, as xxxxx soon as the baptistery was

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xxxx entered.

The baptis baptismal room or font flanked on either side by two rooms with which it is was functionally connected is

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similar to that in a baptis baptistery at Gerasa. Room (42) north of the bath(41) would have or rather may have served [handwritten: 412] as a place to anoint the body before or after baptism and

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a place to dry off after baptism. The floor is of water-resistant cement.