IPOstapyuk Wrote:Where this text plate is from? it looks pretty old.
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Dear Paul Younan if you know any tradition associated with this type of cross in middle east please share ..
The interpretation of the Pahlavi Script is as follows:
"My Lord Christ, have mercy upon Afras son of Chaharbukht the Syrian, who cut this (or, who caused this to be cut)."
On another cross, there is this additional sentence in Estrangelo Syriac. (Galatians 6:14)
?May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.?
The inscription at another church when translated is,
?I, the beautiful bird of Nineveh has come to this land. Written by me Shapper, who was saved by the Holy Messiah from misery.?