Saturday, February 07, 2009

THE SITE OF HIPPOS-SUSSITA is the subject of a Tourism piece in the Jerusalem Post:
Sussita, the horse-shaped city
By STEPHEN G. ROSENBERG

Sussita was the central city of the Golan in Hellenistic and Roman times, though its name was then Hippos. It was still the central city in Byzantine times, when it was the seat of the bishop of the See of Palaestina Secunda, but its name was then changed to Sussita. Both names, in Greek and Aramaic, mean "horse" or "horse-shaped" and the city is so, perched on a rounded hill, with its head to the Golan and its tail to the Kinneret.

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More on Hippos-Sussita here, here, here, here, here, and here.