"kiss its corner after having embraced it
// and contemplate the beautiful things that it holds"
|
"Graciously// and you make haste to kiss
and to salute him. Roger has competed with" |
Kufic inscriptions(details)
found in the Capella Palatina. Translated by Jeremy Johns.
Inscriptions are now housed in the Palazzo Abatellis, the home of the Galleria regionale della Sicilia |
Discussed in William Tronzo, The Cultures
of his Kingdom: Roger II and the Capella Palatina in Palermo (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1997) 45 |
The entire inscription on the left above |