Cathedral

Archaeological excavation at the ancient city of Hippos, located near the Sea of Galilee in Israel, has revealed a remarkable Byzantine cathedral featuring a unique double baptistery and an enigmatic marble block with no known parallel in the archaeological record. Published in the Palestine Exploration Quarterly , this extraordinary discovery is shedding new light on early Christian baptismal rituals and the development of localized liturgical traditions during the Byzantine period. The ancient city of Antiochia Hippos, known as Sussita in Aramaic, was situated on a diamond-shaped mountain rising approximately 350 meters above the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee. As the only Christian city by the lake during the Byzantine era, Hippos held significant religious importance. Excavations led by