Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Horvat Karkara, circa 478 CE. Mosaic.

The line is in the shape of a semicircle

The letters are "traced in red tesserae"

 "double rows of red tesserae" above and below the inscription circa 478 CE Galilee Horvat Karkara Northern church "skirting the back wall of the northern apse"

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Initial Entry Edited(Genre, Bibliography) added transcription Edited(Place, Date, Layout of Writing, Writing, Place and Date of Origin, City, Site, Locus, Translation, Notes) minor corrections with encoding Zev Radovan

κύριε μνήστηθει τῆς δούλης σοῦ Σωσάννα.

O Lord, remember your servant Sosann(a).

κύριε μνήστηθει τῆς δούλης σοῦ Σωσάννα.

"It is reasonable to assume that the inscription was set up to commemorate a donation to the church by the woman names in it … ""In a later stage, the pavement and the inscription were hidden by a bema with an altar, where seemingly a reliquary was deposed for the cult of a martyr, as is hinted by the lid of a reliquary that was discovered on the bema."

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