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 (Late)

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

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 Creation Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value. Edited (date) added image Zev Radovan

Βαραχέος διάκων γράμματος τοἥμυσι

Baracheos Deacon Half gramma

Βαραχέος διάκων γράμματος το ἥμυσι

The inscription, of black letters set in a background of a white octagon which is set in a square (the diagonal faces are of the octagon are extend with patterned mosaic to form the square), records a deacon's donation. Name is of Semitic origin, from Hebrew Barak or Baruch. "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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