+ ὅσοι βλέπουσι τοῦ τόπου τὸ κόσμιον καὶ τῆς στέγης τὸ σεμνὸν ἢ τῆς ψηφίδος, Παύλου δικαίως τοῦ σοφοῦ τοῦ ποιμένος αἰνοῦσι ἀτεχνῶς τὴν ἄγαν προθυμίαν καὶ τοῦ κτίσαντος τὴν χορηγίαν θ' ἅμα. Θεόδωρος οὗτος οἴκοθεν χρυσὸν διδούς, ὃν Θωμᾶς ἐξέθρεψεν οἷα πατὴρ γεγώς, ψυχῇ προθύμῳ προσφορὰν τῷ Προδρόμῳ οὗ τὴν ὁμώνυμον προσηγορίαν ἐπέλαχεν, ὁ πᾶσαν ἐνθεὶς τῷ τόπῳ τὴν καλλονήν. ὁ Κύριος οὖν, τῶν ὅλων ὁ δεσπότης, προσδέξεται πάντων τὴν καλὴν προαίρεσιν.

Whoever behold the artistry of this place and the grandeur of the roof and the mosaic, they truly and fairly applaud the great zeal of Paulos, the wise shepherd, as well as the generosity of the founder. It was Theodoros, who offered gold from his household, whom Thomas raised, when he became his father (?), with a devoted soul as an offering (prosphora) to the Forerunner (Prodromos), after whom he received a homonymous name, who set all the beauty in this place. So may the Lord, the ruler of all, accept this decent undertaking of all (contributors?). The whole building of the holy oratory (eukterion) was paved and roofed with God in the year 594, in the month of Apellaios, in the time of the tenth indiction.