Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 elal0017 Elal 0017

Golan Heights. El-'Αl, 200 CE - 250 CE. Lintel. Dedicatory.

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200 CE - 250 CE Golan El-Al32.80277778,35.74500000

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ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΑΜΗΤΗΡ

Αὐγοῦστα μήτηρ τῶν στρατοπέδων

...Augusta, mother [of the camps].

Αὐγοῦστα μήτηρ τῶν στρατοπέδων

This reading assumes that the surviving stone was originally the (upper?) right portion of a lintel with one or more additional lines. The resemblance of these characters to the "revived square alphabet" suggests a date in the early third century C.E. Here, αὐγοῦστα is almost certainly not a name, but a title, traditionally bestowed upon Roman empresses after Augustus gave it to Livia. (The empress here is likely Julia Domna, who sometimes resided in Antioch.) This inscription may indicate a contemporaneous Roman military presence or station in El-Al. Dimensions given refer to the entire remainder of the stone.

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