Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 Haif 0017

Cave of Elijah, 54-601 CE. Room / Interior Space. Dedicatory.

 33.6 61.2

Holes bored into inscription make some letters impossible to read.

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54-601 CE Coastal Plain Haifa Elijah's Cave

Western wall.

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 Initial Entry Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

ΜΝΗΣΘΗΕΛΙΟΣΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΣΔΕΚΟΥΡΙΩΝΚΟΛΠΤΟΑΜΑΚΥΡΛΛΩΥΙΩ ΕΙΛΕ ΣΤΩ ΜΗΛΙΕΝΟΝΤΙΟΤΟΠΟΣ

Μνησθῇ Ἐλιος Μέγιστοςδεκουρίων Κολονίας Πτολεμαίδος ἃμα Κυρίλλωυἱῷ ΕΙΛΕ ΣΤΩΜΗΛΙΕΝΟΝΤΙ ὁ τόπος

Remembered Elios the Greatest, decurion (of the) Col(onia) Pto(lemais), with his son Cyr<i>llus ... the place

The last words of the inscription mean "the place" and probably refer to Elijah's Cave.

Μνησθῇ Ἐλιος Μέγιστος δεκουρίων Κολονίας Πτολεμαίδος ἃμα Κυρίλλω υἱῷ ΕΙΛΕ ΣΤΩΜΗ ΛΙΕΝΟΝΤΙ ὁ τόπος

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