Sussita, the horse-shaped cityMore on Hippos-Sussita here, here, here, here, here, and here.
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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Saturday, February 07, 2009
THE SITE OF HIPPOS-SUSSITA is the subject of a Tourism piece in the Jerusalem Post: