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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
Found in an ecclesiastical complex in Hippus, a sizeable basilica that "was probably the city's cathedral.".
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ἐν
ΕΝΧΡ
In the time of Procopius, presbyter.
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.