Report·PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 17·c. 1955

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

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 90 of report PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 17 (Kourion Complex Palace (Mosaics) Fales, c. 1955 (1 of 2)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 17, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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… manum tuam et saturantur.[handwritten: 614] " The food with the Church will feed [handwritten: those] who have been baptized is the bread and wine of communion which was administered after baptism. As Gregory Nazianus says in his sermon on baptism, [handwritten: Πέννης προσηλθε; μνήσθητι πόσον πτωχεῖον, πόσον ἐπλούτησας· Ἄρτου δεόμενος, ἢ πόματος, Λάζαρος ἴδως τὶς ἄλλος τοῖς οἶς πινῶσι προσέρχωμαι; ἀπέδωκε τὴν ψυχήν· τράπεζαν ἡ προσηλθες· τὸν ἄρτον, οὐ μετείληφας. τὸ ποτήριον, οὐ κοινωνηκας τοῖς Χριστοῦ πάθεσι τελειώμενος·]

In the Jacobite rite after the celebration of baptismal communion, [handwritten: 616] amongst other lines was sung the following

Fructus, quem non gustavit Adam in Paradiso,

Handwritten: cum gaudio positus est in ore tuo. 617

hodie in ore tuo cum gaudio positus est. [handwritten: 618] In a Syriac sermon in the Libri Graduum of the fourth century, in which the spiritual and physical food [handwritten: Probably] derived from the Church after baptism are described, the lines from the gospel according to St. Matthew are quoted,

Noli curam habere corporis tui, quid manducetis, neque animae tuae, quo nutriaris. The [handwritten: following] verse, though not quoted reads [handwritten: ἐμπρέψατε εἰς τὰ πετεινά] [handwritten: Τὸς οὐρανοὺς ὅτι οὐ σπείρουσιν οὐδὲ θερίζουσιν οὐδὲ συνάγουσιν εἰς ἀποθήκας, καὶ ὁ πατὴρ ὑμῶν ὁ οὐράνιος τρέφει αὐτά. 619]

In short, God feeds us even as he feeds the animals-a feeling … continues

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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