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Linguistic features:
Formulae:
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 301
-
AD 800
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Monumental:
Medium:
mosaic
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
; unknown
Funds:
; unknown
Price:
unknown
Placement:
the floor of the narthex
People mentioned:
Name:
Yoshuʿa
Patronym:
Yudan
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: 4-8 c. CE description: Aramaic donation of Yoshuʿa Yudan founded on the floor of the narthex. The text is situated with the ornamental mosaic in the hexagonal frame composed of a single line of black tesserae. The first three lines of a longer inscription, about two lines missing. Dimensions: 20 cm high , 35 cm wide. ed. CIIP IV 3871 דכיר יושוע יודן דיהב [--] dkyr ywšwʿ ywdn [--] dyhb 'Be remembered Yoshuʿa Yudan … who gave …' commentary: This inscription commemorated a single donation, as indicated by dkyr and the singular verb. However, Beyer reconstruct a name: Essai איסי in the beginnings of the third line. CIIP IV 3871 Beyer 1984: 367 (yySU2) Naveh 1978: 119-120 (no 78) Werlin 2015: 147-148 https://library.brown.edu/iip/viewinscr/ksus0003/
Author:
Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-07-21 12:46:15
Last update:
2024-03-27 14:52:44
Dimensions: surface: w 35 x h 20 cm
Condition: Aramaic donation of Yoshuʿa Yudan founded on the floor of the narthex. The text is situated with the ornamental mosaic in the hexagonal frame composed of a single line of black tesserae. The first three lines of a longer inscription, about two lines missing.
Text:
Date: 301 CE - 800 CE
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Palestine Susiya 31.391944, 35.112222 Synagogue the floor of the narthex
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: mosaic inscription
Summary:
Inscription on mosaic in JPA script from Susiya. AD 301 - AD 800.
Changes history: 2022-07-21 Tomasz Barański Creation; 2024-03-27 Martyna Swierk Last modification; 2023-12-06 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
Available under licence CC-BY 4.0
; @2021Translation
'Be remembered Yoshuʿa Yudan … who gave …'
Commentary
This inscription commemorated a single donation, as indicated by dkyr and the singular verb. However, Beyer reconstruct a name: Essai איסי in the beginnings of the third line.
Bibliography (edition)
- CIIP IV W., Ameling, H., Cotton, W., Eck, A., Ecker, B., Isaac, A., Kushnir-Stein, H., Misgav, J., Price, P., Weiß, A., Yardeni, 2023, Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. Volume IV: Iudaea/Idumaea, Berlin, Boston, 3871.
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, 367. J., Naveh, 1978, On Stone and Mosaic: The Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Ancient Synagogues, Tel Aviv, 119-120, 78. S.H., Werlin, 2015, Ancient Synagogues of Southern Palestine, 300-800 C.E.: Living on the Edge, Leiden, 147-148.