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‘Atiqot 62 (2010)
ISBN 2948-040X
A Christian Inscription at Shelomi
(pp. 161–167)
Hagit Tahan and Danny Syon
Keywords: late Byzantine Age, Christianity, epigraphy, indiction cycle
During a salvage excavation in the industrial zone at Shelomi in the western Galilee, building remains, including a mosaic pavement, were unearthed. The mosaic featured a fragmentary Greek inscription, probably a dedicatory inscription of a church or a monastery. The inscription was dated on stylistic grounds to the sixth–seventh centuries CE. This dating is further corroborated by the pottery finds and a coin of Justin II found at the site.