A Faction Acclamation Incised on a Pithos Found Near the North-West Church at Hippos (Sussita)

Authors

  • Adam Łajtar Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Warszawa
  • Jolanta Młynarczyk Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Warszawa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12775/EtudTrav.30.014

Keywords

circus factions, inscription, ceramic pithos, Hippos-Sussita, late Roman period, Byzantine period, early Islamic period, Syro-Palestine

Abstract

In one of the domestic rooms attached to the North-West Church at Hippos (Sussita), at least three ceramic pithoi were found, all of them in secondary use, possibly for the processing (storing?) of lime. One of them bore an inscription in Greek, scratched into its surface, which turned out to be an acclamation for the circus faction of the Blues. This interesting addition to the corpus of the factions’ inscriptions from Syro-Palestine is also lending the dating to the original period of the pithos’ use, which cannot be later than the Islamic conquest of the region in ad 636/638.
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Published

2017-08-23

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ŁAJTAR, Adam and MŁYNARCZYK, Jolanta. A Faction Acclamation Incised on a Pithos Found Near the North-West Church at Hippos (Sussita). Études et Travaux. Online. 23 August 2017. No. 30, pp. 289-302. [Accessed 6 July 2025]. DOI 10.12775/EtudTrav.30.014.

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No. 30 (2017)

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