Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 kede0001 Kede 0001

Upper Galilee. Cadasa (Tel Qedesh), 279 CE - 285 CE (?). Altar. Dedicatory.

Two lofty palms or perhaps two trees/shrubs with boughs pointing upwards Flanking the text 279 CE - 285 CE (?). Galilee Cadasa (Tel Qedesh) Roman temple complex at Kedesh (Tel Qedesh)

Found outside the temple.

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 Creation Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames Edited Added display date adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

θεῷ ἁγίῳ ΜϹΟ Υ ΘΙΝΣεπτίμιος Ζήνων Ζωσίμου ἐνέθηκονἀνέθηκεν ΙΥΕ μηνός ἈϙτεμισίουἈρτεμισίου ηι

To the holy god... Septimius Zenon son of Zosimos dedicated in the year... on the eighteenth of the month of Artemisios.

θεῷ ἁγίῳ ΜϹΟ Υ ΘΙΝ Ζήνων Ζωσίμου ἐνέθηκονἀνέθηκεν ΙΥΕ μηνός ἈϙτεμισίουἈρτεμισίου ηι

The temple at Kedesh appears to be dedicated to the god Baalshamin based on epigraphical evidence and two carved images of eagles found at the site. This inscription, on the back side of an altar, is distributed on 12 lines with an average of four to six letters per line. The dates proposed for the inscription are based on the Tyrian era, which began in 126/125 BCE. A reading of IYE as (L)YE could indicate "in the year 405", that is 279/280 CE. By instead reading LY and taking the Ε as an abbreviation for the word ἔτους, the date would be the year 410 of the Tyrian era, that is 284/285 CE. The author notes that both readings are based on the opinion of Clermont-Ganneau and that the date is therefore uncertain. Artemisios is the eighth month of the Macedonian calendar and corresponds to May 19 - June 18, indicating a date of June 5.

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