Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Bshe 0144

Scythopolis-Beth Shean, Late 4th-early 5th century. Slab. Dedicatory.

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Late 4th-early 5th century Jordan Valley Scythopolis-Beth Shean

The stone was found in the vicinity of the theatre.

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 Initial Entry Corrected abbreviation adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

Ἐπὶ Φλαουίου Ἀβλαβίου τοῦ μεγαλοπρεπεστάτου μητροπολίτου ἠ πόλιςἀνενεώθη

In the days of Flavius Ablabius, the most magnificent metropolitan, the city was renewed

The term μητροπολίτης is otherwise unknown in connection with provincial administration: the wording of the inscription does not admit of its being an ethnic and neither can Ablabius be a metropolitan bishop. We are left with the reluctant conclusion that the term here indicates a governor resident in the metropolis (in this case, given Ablabius' rank, this should be Caesarea).

Ἐπὶ Φλαουίου Ἀβλαβίου τοῦ μεγαλοπρεπεστάτου μητροπολίτου ἠ πόλις ἀνενεώθη

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