[The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] I´m afraid I inadvertently used the Danish word "sort", meaning black, when I spoke of the black hole between the 9th and 7th centuries in Syrian-Palestinian epigraphy. My apologies to all, and good weekend. Fred Cryer