File:Armenian mosaic-inscr at Jerusalem.jpg

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English: Armenian inscriptions at Musrara quarter, north of the Damascus Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is the dedication of the building:

1: I

2: Ewstat‘ the priest l

3: aid this mosaic.

4: (You) who enter this house,

5: remember me and my brother L

6: uke to

7: Christ.
Date The present mosaic was uncovered in a carefully executed excavation and can be dated, on archeological grounds, to the second half of the seventh century. This date is established by coins discovered embedded in the mortar in which the floor was laid.
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