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- Archaeologists uncovered a marble block with three half-sphere depressions near a baptismal font in Hippos, Israel, suggesting an early baptismal rite.
- The block may have held oils for a threefold baptismal immersion ceremony.
- The ceremonial hall was built after 591 CE and destroyed by an earthquake in 749 CE.
- The site also yielded a bronze candelabrum and marble reliquary, the largest of their kind found in Israel.
