Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 fakh0004 Fakh 0004

Golan. Fakhem, Date unknown. Block. Dedicatory.

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Dovetail design Left side of extant stone Date Unknown Golan Fakhem32.95255581523348,35.848627725022105

Secondarily used as construction material.

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ΧΟΡΜ ΟΚΤΙΣ

χωρἐπίσκοποςχορἐπίσκοπος Μ ὁ κτίστης

...country-bishop M...the builder...

χωρἐπίσκοποςχορἐπίσκοπος Μ ὁ κτίστης

Inscription of unknown type, incomplete. The interpretation of what is readable is tentative, but not without precedents. ΧΟΡ is found in a sixth-century ecclesiastical inscription from northern Syria as an abbreviation for chorepiscopos, and κτίστης is common. The stone was found in Fakhem, but was in secondary use as construction material. It is unclear whether it originated there, or was moved to the site for construction when the city began flourishing in the twentieth century. If the latter scenario is the case, it is possible that the stone originated in Farj, a rich antique site lying 1 km south-east.

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