Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Ashdod, 9 June 529 CE. Mosaic. Building dedication.

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9 June 529 CE Coastal Plain Ashdod

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ΧΜΓ Ἐπὶ τοῦ θεοφιλεστάτου ἀββᾶς Γερμανοῦ πρεσβυτέρου καὶ ἡγουμένου ἐγένετο ἐκ θεμελίων ἡ ληνὸς σὺν τῷ μοναστηρίῳ ἐγράφη μηνὶ Δεσίῳ κʹ ἰνδικτιῶνος ζʹ ἔτους λτʹ

(Cryptogram) In the time of the most God-loving priest and hegumen Abba Germanos(?), the winepress was completed from the foundations, together with the monastery. Written in the 20th of the month of Daesius, indiction 7, year 330 (era of Elutheropolis).

ΧΜΓ Ἐπὶ τοῦ θεοφιλεστάτου ἀββᾶς Γερμανοῦ πρεσβυτέρου καὶ ἡγουμένου ἐγένετο ἐκ θεμελίων ἡ ληνὸς σὺν τῷ μοναστηρίῳ ἐγράφη μηνὶ Δεσίῳ κʹ ἰνδικτιῶνος ζʹ ἔτους λτʹ

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