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Handwritten: meaning enter
Handwritten: Eisagein
Handwritten: meaning bring in
Handwritten: Eisagein
The verb may be intransitive or transitive; if intransitive, [handwritten: 478] would have read [handwritten: 479] ἐπάγαδω or [handwritten: 480] ἐπάγαδοις ;if transitive, [handwritten: 481] ἐπάγαδον or Τω οἶκ = τῷ ἐπάγαδα. In either case, two οἶκω must be understood to be dependent in thought if not in syntax with both εὐτυχῶς and εἴσαγε.
Handwritten: I prefer the more frequently used ἐπάγαδα to the naver ἐπάγαδα.
The two words emphasized spatially in this inscription are ἐπάγαδ and εὐτυχῶς. [handwritten: 482] Both words occur [handwritten: 483] on rings, gems, or coins and both, inside other wreaths. [handwritten: 484] εὐτυχῶς is associated with victory or with the beginning or ending of something. [handwritten: 485] It occurs at the end of dedicatory [handwritten: 486] inscriptions of buildings. In one building, it occurs in the [handwritten: 487] indicating that the user of the building form of εὐτυχίτε [handwritten: 488] is to prosper and not the building. When εὐτυχῶς [handwritten: 489] is followed by the dative or connected syntactically with a [handwritten: 490] dative, the dative is usually a person. Now in our inscriptions [handwritten: οἶκος and] tion, the dative connected with εὐτυχῶς [handwritten: not a person] is an object.
The obvious interpretation is that the building is to prosper because you entered it, and to be sure, if no one entered it, the building would be abandoned and would disintegrate.
Such is the probable saecular meaning of the inscription.
However, the inscription says that he who enters is to bring with him prosperity to the building. Where in the other inscriptions and objects depicted in the mosaics, the mixing building is a considered as a person, there is an immediate
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain