Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 carm0012 Carm 0012

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

branch bottom center (below middle column) 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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Κονο Γράμμα

... Kono Gramma

Κονο Γράμμα

Rectangular mosaic inscription with black letters, white background, and a black outline. It records a donation to the church. The top of the inscription is damaged. Inscription carm0012 is in the same rectangle mosaic as inscriptions carm0011 and carm0013. It is the middle column. There is a decorative branch below this (the middle) column. "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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