Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic on church floor. Dedication.

octagonal frame around inscription patterned square frame around octagon Fifth or sixth century CE Galilee Carmiel Khirbet Bata Byzantine church

Galilee. Carmiel. Byzantine Church at Khirbet Bata, the early stratum.

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Θεόδωρος ὑποδιάκων γράμμα

Theodorus Subdeacom Gramma

Θεόδωρος ὑποδιάκων γράμμα

The inscription is black letters set in a background of a white octagon which is set in a square; the diagonal faces are of the octagon are extended with patterned mosaic to form the square. Name is Greek. It records a subdeacon's donation. "Gramma" was used as a weight measurement (1/24 of an ounce or 1/288 of a Roman pound) in the Roman and early Byzantine periods, while during Heraclius' reign in the early 600s CE, the word referred to an actual coin. It is not clear which meaning is intended here, but the inscription's date suggests the former. One of 18 mixed funerary and dedicatory inscriptions in the church's early stratum.

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