ʾnh yhwdh ḥzʾnh
Complete
Linguistic features:
Formulae:
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 301
-
AD 400
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Monumental:
Medium:
column/pillar
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
column?
Funds:
his own property
Price:
unknown
Placement:
column
People mentioned:
Name:
Yehudah
Patronym:
Status:
cantor
Ethnic allegance:
Semitic
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
Benefactor
Occupation:
cantor
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Judaism
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Description
date: 4th century description: Aramaic inscription of the cantor on a column (from a synagogue?). Text decorated with a seven-branched menorah. Letters ca. 5-7 cm high (basing on the drawing). אנה יהודה חזאנה ʾnh yhwdh ḥzʾnh 'I am Yehudah, the cantor' Beyer 1984: 371 (ggAF 1) Naveh 1978: 50-51 Gregg, Robert C., and Dan Urman. Jews, Pagans, and Christians in the Golan Heights: Greek and Other Inscriptions of the Roman and Byzantine Eras. South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism 140. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996: 30. [not consulted here] Sharon, Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Paleaestine, vol. 3, FIQ-AFIQ: 206-241. https://synagogues.kinneret.ac.il/synagogues/aphek/ https://library.brown.edu/iip/viewinscr/fiqg0001/ http://survey.antiquities.org.il/index_Eng.html#/MapSurvey/38/site/5095
Author:
Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-09-06 21:21:31
Last update:
2024-03-27 15:05:02
Building:
Synagogue
Site:
Aphek; Fiq
Dimensions: surface: cm
Condition: Aramaic inscription of the cantor on a column (from a synagogue?). Text decorated with a seven-branched menorah.
Text: Letters ca. 5-7 cm high (basing on the drawing)
Date: 301 CE - 400 CE
4th century
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Palestine Aphek (Fiq) 32.77, 35.7 Synagogue column
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: public inscription
Summary:
Inscription of the cantor in JPA script from Aphek (Fiq). AD 301 - AD 400.
Changes history: 2022-09-06 Tomasz Barański Creation; 2024-03-27 Martyna Swierk Last modification; 2023-12-09 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
Available under licence CC-BY 4.0
; @2021Translation
'I am Yehudah, the cantor'
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, 371. J., Naveh, 1978, On Stone and Mosaic: The Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Ancient Synagogues, Tel Aviv, 50-51. R.C., Gregg, D, Urman, 1996, Jews, Pagans, and Christians in the Golan Heights: Greek and Other Inscriptions of the Roman and Byzantine Eras, South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism 140, 30 [not consulted here]. M., Sharon, 2004, Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Paleaestine 3 FIQ-AFIQ, Leiden, Boston, 206-241.