A Palestinian Aramaic mosaic inscription on the margins of Room 2 floor. The two-lines inscription bordered by two blue bands that run along the length of the room from southwest
to north-east for ea. 4.4 m. The inscription is bounded by a cross on the south, next to the entrance in the southern wall. A simplified figure of a bird can be recognized above the
inscription. This 'Mosaic Room' is most probably a small chapel. The inscription seems to devide the room into two units, the eastern seemingly serving as the sanctuary, though no fragments of a chancel screen, and no indications of an altar or decorations typical of an ecclesiastical building were uncovered, except for few tiny marble fragments. But knst of the inscription indicates that it served as a chapel.
smst' tql' d'bdth d' knst ' 'ltb npsh dq'sys' qyr'q 'l 'dwh
dqsys 'prwqs wdsms' ywmtbwz dkrwnwn ltb wdmndktb wdmndqr'
'The deaconess Thekla who erected (lit. made) this church on account of the soul of the priest Cyriacos by the hands of the priest Farrukos, and of the deacon YWMTBWZ. Their remembrance for good, and of whoever wrote and of whoever reads (it).'
A building inscription of deaconess Thekla for the memory of priest Cyricos. A chapel (knst), being erected for his memory.