A Greek Inscription Dated by the Era of Hegira in an Umayyad Church at Tamra in Eastern Galilee

A recent excavation in the village of Tamra in Eastern Galilee, Israel, has uncovered a church. Four building phases could be discerned. The church was erected in the Byzantine period and continued to function as such in the Umayyad and Abbasid periods until it was abandoned. A dated inscription was discovered on the mosaic pavement of the church of the Umayyad period. The date is apparently reckoned by the era of Hegira to the year 725 AD. The present paper deals especially with the decipherment and interpretation of this inscription.