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HIPPOS

(Gk. Híppos)

A Greek city (Antiochia Hippos) founded by the Seleucid kings in the 3rd century b.c., located at modern Qalʿat el-µuṣn (“fortress of the horse”; 212242), 2 km. (1.2 mi.) E. of the Sea of Galilee. Conquered by Alexander Janneus (ca. 80 b.c.), Hippos was taken by Pompey, at which time Pliny knew it as a city of the Decapolis (Nat. hist. 5, 74). Augustus gave it to Herod the Great, and afterwards it became part of the province of Syria. In Byzantine times Hippos was a part of Palaestina Secunda and the seat of a bishopric. It was known in Aramaic as Sussita (“mare, horse”).

Hippos, a walled city with a major gate on the east and a smaller one on the west, had on the south side of its main east-west Cardo street a nymphaeum and bath house, and on the north side a theater. Three Byzantine churches were found to the north of the Cardo and two on the south side, one of which was a cathedral triapsidal basilica, with parts of the altar screen, marble facing, and tesserae found there; it also had an adjoining triapsidal baptistery with baptismal font and mosaics with Greek inscriptions. Remains of the city’s Sea of Galilee port have been found. Much of Hippos was destroyed by earthquake in a.d. 747.

Bibliography. C. Epstein, “Hippos (Sussita),” NEAEHL 2:634-36.

W. Harold Mare

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HIPPOS

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)