Baptistery and Cathedral Excavations, Milan

Inscription

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Fragment of a fresco inscription from the 4th-century baptistery. If this is the inscription composed by St. Ambrose, which is likely but I haven't yet been able to verify, it reads in full:

Eight-niched soars this temple for sacred rites
Eight corners has its font
Right it is to build this baptismal hall about the sacred number eight
For here the people are reborn.

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