Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Galilee. Hippos (Susita), 338 CE to 640 CE. Chancel Panel. Dedicatory.

The inscription is cut in the molding of the frame surrounding the panel

Two crosses At the end of the line 338-640 CE Galilee Hippos (Susita)

Found in an ecclesiastical complex in Hippus, a sizeable basilica that "was probably the city's cathedral.".

In situ

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Michael Eisenberg

ἐν χρSόνῳ Προκοπίου πρεσβυτέρου + +

ΕΝΧΡSΠΡΟΚΟΠΙΟΥΠΡΕϹΒΥΤΕΡΟΥ + +

In the time of Procopius, presbyter.

ἐν χρSόνῳ Προκοπίου πρεσβυτέρου

At the end of the single line of Greek letters are carved two crosses, and between them an incised image of a two-handled vessel. The panel may well be in re-use in the church. On the reverse of the inscribed surface there is evidence of an attempt to erase a relief figure of a dolphin, and the image of the relief that appears in the panel beneath the inscription is not self-evidently Christian: a portal is crowned by a conch-shaped lintel, and hanging in the center of the doorway, suspended from entwined cables is a globe - perhaps meant to represent a lamp.

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