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Upper Galilee. Cadasa (Tel Qedesh), 189/190 CE. Pedestal. Dedicatory.
Found near the eastern wall of the peribolos.
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ήλιας Ἀγαθοκ
ς συμβίου καὶ
τῷ
(Blessed be) Antikerasos the good, Krateros, Aelias, Agathokles with his wife and Io[..]ptes his daughter (they erected) the statue with the pedestal in the year 315.
The temple at Cadasa (Tel Qedesh) appears to be dedicated to the god Baalshamin based on epigraphical evidence and two carved images of eagles found at the site. This inscription was carved on a high pedestal which was intended to hold a statue. The first line has only two letters remaining, both of which are illegible, but it probably contained some kind of blessing in honor or memory of the persons named, who are donors and possibly all related. The seventh and eighth lines have smaller letters (1.6-2.2 cm as opposed to 3 cm) which are more closely spaced, which the author attributes to a miscalculation of space. He suggests that the pedestal likely supported a statue of a diety such as Baalshamin, the emperor, or a prominent family member of those who donated the statue. Κράτηρος is a phonetic misspelling of Κράτερος or Κρατερός, and Ἀήλιας is probably a corruption of Ἀέλιος, the Greek form of Latin Aelius. Ἀντικέρασoς, Κράτηρος and Ἀγαθοκλῆς are common in the Greek onomastikon. The date 315 is likely to be according to the Tyrian era, thus indicating 189/190 CE (under the reign of Commodus). Adam Łajtar provides a different restoration of the text, resulting in a translation of "[name,...]-eus Antikerasos Krateros (erected) the statue of his wife Aureila Agathoclea and his daughter Ioulitta together with its pedestal, in the year 315." Script is rounded.