Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Hura 0001

Hura, late fourth or early fifth century CE. Mosaic. Dedication.

there is one character wedged above the 3rd line

double frame around inscription rows of red tesserae seperating lines of text

late fourth or early fifth century CE Negev Hura31.327264,34.93855 Byzantine-period monastery at Ḥura

Service Room 63

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ΕΠΙΤΟΥΘΕΟΦΙΛΕΣΤΑΤΟΥΣΟΜΜ ΩΝΚΑΜΑΤΩΝΑΥΤΟΥΚΑΙΕΛ Η ΕΤΕΛΙΩΘΔEΜΑΡΤΕΜΗΣΙΟ

ἐπὶ τοῦ θεοφιλεστάτου Σομμ ῶν καμάτων αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐτελιώθη δὲ μηνὶ Ἀρτεμησίου

Under the most god-loving Somm... by his labors… was completed in the month of Artemisios…

Here, the partially preserved word Somm… could be either Sommaseos, a name mentioned in a dedication from Philadelphia (SEG 38, No. 1660 [550–560 CE]), or Sommos, a name mentioned on a tombstone from Hauran (IGLSyr 21.5.1.83 )

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