Sha'ar Ha'Aliya - Monastery

Church/Monastery name: 
Sha'ar Ha'Aliya - Monastery
Inscription number: 
1
Selected bibliography: 
220-222, no. 1, pl. 10:3 (ph.) (in Hebrew) (ed. pr.)
100-101, no. 1, pl. 19 D (ph.)
84-85, pl. 11 (ph.)
189, no. 275
Abbreviation for Journals and Series
Epigraphical corpora: 

SEG 16 (1959): 841, 20 (1964): 414

CIIP II (2011): 2149 (ph.)

Inscription type: 
invocation/prayer
Location: 

On a mosaic pavement in the western part of the central hall.

Physical description : 

Rough mosaic pavement with plain ornament (cross-hatching with smaller rhomboids in the squares); slightly east of the centre, the inscription appears inside a double circle. The inscription is oriented to the west.

Meas.: letters 10 cm.

Text: 

☩ Ὁ τόπος

οὗτος τῶν

καλῶν ἡμε-

ρῶν ἐστ-

ιν. ☩

Translation: 

This is the place of happy days. (CIIP)

Commentary: 

Lifshitz suggested the inscription conveys a prayer for a blessed life, rather than an affirmation of the life there (in the monastery?).

Summary: 

Mosaic inscription inside a double circle, on the pavement of the central hall.