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

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be found a refuge from the troubles of the moxxx world. The probable name of the bath was thus, fittingly [handwritten: Zwnpia] By the same token, our xx bath was probably named [handwritten: Ktieis] [handwritten: Ktieis] · The panel with [handwritten: Ktieis] is the largest and most detailed in our building. The maxxmm northernmost panel in room(49) may have also contained some detailed pictorial xx representation, but it is now lost. One of the themes stressed in our building is that of creation. There is the creation of life as symbolized by the birds and the fishes. There is the seconx creation, almost the individual. of baptismx and of the

Lastly there is the mxxx creation of the building partly as a building as symbolized by the measuring tool of [handwritten: Ktieis] and partly as a person as symbolized by the wreath.

Thatx the floor mosaics of our bath and that at Narlidja mix portray what one would expect of a baptistery in Sidon. It is identified to portray is shown by a baptistery in Sidon. It is identified as such by an inscription in the mosaic itself which was built in the year . If the mosaics are as xx published, they offer certain striking resemblances. In the xx first place, the floor is surrounded by a border of birds and fishes. These must in all probability be the birds and the fishes of room (49), the animals created out of the water on the fifth day. In a xxxx circle xxxxxxxxx set off are two partridges, which look up to a bowl probably either for food or drink.