Sha'ar Ha'Aliya - Monastery

Church/Monastery name:

Inscription number:

Selected bibliography:

Dothan, M., 1954	220-222, no. 1, pl. 10:3 (ph.) (in Hebrew) (ed. pr.)
Dothan, M. , 1955	100-101, no. 1, pl. 19 D (ph.)
Lifshitz, B., 1962	84-85, pl. 11 (ph.)
Madden, A. M., 2014	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.