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Linguistic features:

Formulae:

Quotations from literary texts:

Dating: AD 201 - AD 400
Language: Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Monumental:
Medium: stone
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated: lintel
Funds: own property
Price: unknown
Placement: lintel
People mentioned:
Name:
Yonah
Patronym:
Status:
unspecified
Ethnic allegance:
Semitic
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
Benefactor
Occupation:
unspecified
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Judaism
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic

Description

date: 3-4th c. description: Inscription on a basalt lintel. Dimensions: 39,5 x 53 x 43 cm ed. Beyer 1991: ggAL 2 נה טברייה דע[בד...] [דכיר לטב ...] [... הד]ן שקופה מלך ע[למה יחן ברכח בעמלה] 1. [Gedacht werde zum Guten des …]nā aus Tiberias, der [gestiftet hat …] 2. […] diese Oberschwelle! Der König der Welt [gebe den Segen als Lohn für sein Tun]! Blessed be the memory of [Yo]nah (?) of Tiberias who gave... this lintel. The King of the World..." (Ben-Zvie, English abstract) Beyer 1984: 373-374 (ggAL 1-2) Naveh 1978: 23-24 (4) J. Ben-Zevie. “A New Synagogue Inscription at ’Alma, Bulletin of the Jewish Palestine Exploration, vol. טו, no. ג/ד, Israel Exploration Society, 1950, ss. 75–77, [paper in Hebrew with English abstract on Jstor] http://www.jstor.org/stable/23728303. https://synagogues.kinneret.ac.il/synagogues/alma/


Author: Tomasz Barański
Added by: Martyna
Created: 2022-07-22 17:13:44
Last update: 2024-03-27 15:23:21
Building: Synagogue
Site: Alma

Dimensions: surface: w 53 x h 39.5 x d 43 cm

Condition: Inscription on a basalt lintel.

Text:

Date: 201 CE - 400 CE

3-4th c.

Findspot: Unknown

Original location: Palestine Alma 33.055556, 35.491111 Synagogue lintel

Current repository: Unknown

Text type: fragmentary inscription

Summary:

Partially preserved inscription in JPA script from Alma. AD 201 - AD 400.

Changes history: 2022-07-22 Tomasz Barański Creation; 2024-03-27 Martyna Swierk Last modification; 2023-12-08 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file

Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;

Available under licence CC-BY 4.0

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Interpretive

[... דכיר לטב] נה טברייה דע[ בד...]
[... הד] ן שקופה מלך ע[למה יחן ברכח בעמלה]

Diplomatic

[···.......]נהטברייהדע[..···]
[···..]ןשקופהמלךע[...............]

Translation

1.'[Gedacht werde zum Guten des …]nā aus Tiberias, der [gestiftet hat …]'
2.'[…] diese Oberschwelle! Der König der Welt [gebe den Segen als Lohn für sein Tun]!'

'Blessed be the memory of [Yo]nah (?) of Tiberias who gave... this lintel. The King of the World...'
(Ben-Zvie, English abstract)

Commentary

Bibliography

    K., Beyer, 1984, Die aramäischen Texte vom Toten Meer: samt den Inschriften aus Palästina, dem Testament Levis aus der Kairoer Genisa, der Fastenrolle und den alten Talmudischen Zitaten, Gottingen, 373–374. J., Naveh, 1978, On Stone and Mosaic: The Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Ancient Synagogues, Tel Aviv, 23-24, 4. J., Ben-Zevie, 1950, A New Synagogue Inscription, Alma, Bulletin of the Jewish Palestine Exploration טו ג/ד, 75-77.

Images

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