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The probability is that they were thrown in as part of the ceremony and these coins are such as the priests and attendants were unable to recover,though the possibility that their is [handwritten: location] fortuitous can not be excluded.
To sum up,the [handwritten: K Tiês] figure,the [handwritten: ...] partridge, the location of each of these and their probably Christian significance,the niche opposite the bath, [handwritten: inner] [handwritten: off of] the setting of the two centorriana panels by the guilloche border, the apodyterion next to the entrance, the font or bath flanked on either side by rooms with which it was probably functionally if not physically connected, and the probable mention of a baptistery in the mit the inscription all fit together and per-
Handwritten: Εξεσην--Κονιζουσ
frigidarium (room 39) as a baptistery.
Handwritten: As such, it may not have beenunique. 448
We have now considered all rooms with mosaic floors, except room 74 and the entrance room (19). Of these two rooms, the mosaic in room (74) is too fragmentary to allow of any interpretation. Since all the mosaic floors of the other rooms of the building-rooms(63)and(74)excepted- may be interpreted as having a religious significance and since the large inscription in room (49) spoke of the [handwritten: ôâoi] or house as having girt about themselves the signs of Christ,one may reasonably assume this room (19) to be no exception.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain