Sussita - Cathedral

Church/Monastery name: 
Sussita - Cathedral
Inscription number: 
6
Epigraphical corpora: 

SEG 16 (1959): 825; 64 (2014): 1707

Inscription type: 
acclamation
Location: 

Findspt: In the mosaic floor in both smaller apses of the baptistery. Found during the 1952 salvage excavation.

Pres. location: In situ. (Łajtar)

Physical description : 

Two identical mosaic inscriptions, each located at the centre of one of the side apses. The two words are interlaced in the shape of a cross, sharing the omega.

Text: 

        Φ

    Ζ  Ω  Η         Φῶς, Ζωή.

        Σ

Translation: 

Light, life.

Date: 
second half of 6th cent.
Summary: 

Two identical mosaic inscriptions with acclamations, in both smaller apses of the baptistery.