Church/Monastery name:
Tel Malhata south - Monastery (?)
Inscription number:
1
Selected bibliography:
41 (in Hebrew) | |
937 (ph.) |
Inscription type:
quotation
Location:
At the edge of the mosaic pavement, just outside the decorative border, near the main (north) entrance of the central room.
Physical description :
Two-line mosaic inscription within a tabula ansata, broken at the right end. Reading from photo.
Text:
Εἰρήηνη ἡ ἴσοδό[ς σου καὶ]
πληρωθήσε⟨ται⟩ τὰ ἰάμ[ατά σου.]
Translation:
In peace (be) your coming in and your healing will be granted in full.
Apparatus:
L.2 haplography of ται.
Summary:
Two-line mosaic inscription with quotations within a tabula ansata, in the central room near the main entrance.
Citations from LXX / NT:
I Kgs. (I Sam.) 16:4; Jer. 26 (46):11
The inscription is a pastiche of I Kgs. (I Sam.) 16:4 (first line) and Jeremiah 26 (46):11 (second line). As is often the case, the scriptural quote in the inscription has quite a different meaning from the original text.