Interpretation of The Inscriptions
Dr. Burnell, archeologist with the government of India, in 1873, translated the inscriptions as follows:
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- "In punishment by the cross (was) the suffering of this one;
- He who is the true christ, and God above and Guide ever pure."
Prof. F.C. Burkitt and C.P.T. Winckworth, the then reader of Assyriology in the University of Cambridge studied the inscriptions and produced a translation. This has been discussed at the International Congress of Orientalists held at Oxford in 1925.
The interpretation is as follows:
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- "My Lord Christ, have mercy upon Afras son of Chaharbukht the Syrian, who cut this (or, who caused this to be cut)."
On the large cross, there is this additional sentence in Estrangelo Syriac. (Galatians 6:14)
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- ”May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
The inscription at Kadamattom church when translated is,
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- ”I, the beautiful bird of Nineveh has come to this land. Written by me Shapper, who was saved by the Holy Messiah from misery.”
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