Complete
Linguistic features:
Formulae:
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 301
-
AD 800
Language:
Hebrew
Monumental:
Medium:
stone
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
chancel screen?
Funds:
; unknown
Price:
unknown
Placement:
pillar of a chancel screen
People mentioned:
Name:
Yudan
Patronym:
Shimʿon
Status:
religious_authority
Ethnic allegance:
Semitic
Tribal allegane:
Levite
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
Benefactor
Occupation:
priest
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Judaism
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Description
date: 4-8 c. CE description: Marble slab with Hebrew inscription founded among the ruins in the synagogue. Marble slab inscribed in square Hebrew letters on one side (plain and smoothed) and ornamented. Dimensions: 50 cm wide. ed. CIIP IV 3878 [--]יודן הלוי בר שמעון עשה את הִ ywdn hlwy br šmʿwn ʿśh ʾt h[--] 'Yudan the Levite son of Shimʿon made the …' commentary: (CIIP IV 3878) The exacavators supposed this to be “part of the banister belonging to the central steps of the bamah, leading up to the Ark of the Law.” The same name appears on the chancel screen in no. 3881, engraved apparently by the same hand; in that inscription, the language is Aramaic and the title Rabbi is added; but the donor Yoshuʿa Yudan in the mosaic inscription no. 3871 was someone else. The use here of Aramaic br instead of Hebrew bn means that the patronymic in that form was his fixed name, as often in Hebrew nomenclature. Furthermore, the custom of putting a person’s title between his personal name and patronymic is attested in other public inscriptions in Iudaea/Palaestina, e.g. at Naʿaran (nos. 2730 and 2734), and Barʿam and Ḥamat Gader (Naveh, nos. 1,33), and is found already in the Bible (e.g., 2 Kgs 19,2). CIIP IV 3878 Beyer 1984: not present Naveh 1978: 120-121 (no 80) Werlin 2015: 160 https://library.brown.edu/iip/viewinscr/ksus0005/
Author:
Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-07-21 14:55:03
Last update:
2024-03-27 15:20:13
Dimensions: surface: w 50 cm
Condition: Marble slab with Hebrew inscription founded among the ruins in the synagogue. Marble slab inscribed in square Hebrew letters on one side (plain and smoothed) and ornamented.
Text:
Date: 301 CE - 800 CE
4-8 c. CE
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Palestine Susiya 31.391944, 35.112222 Synagogue pillar of a chancel screen
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: fragmentary inscription
Summary:
Partially preserved inscription in Hebrew script from Susiya. AD 301 - AD 800.
Changes history: 2022-07-21 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
; @2021Translation
'Yudan the Levite son of Shimʿon made the …'
Commentary
(CIIP IV 3878) The exacavators supposed this to be “part of the banister belonging to the central steps of the bamah, leading up to the Ark of the Law.” The same name appears on the chancel screen in no. 3881, engraved apparently by the same hand; in that inscription, the language is Aramaic and the title Rabbi is added; but the donor Yoshuʿa Yudan in the mosaic inscription no. 3871 was someone else. The use here of Aramaic br instead of Hebrew bn means that the patronymic in that form was his fixed name, as often in Hebrew nomenclature. Furthermore, the custom of putting a person’s title between his personal name and patronymic is attested in other public inscriptions in Iudaea/Palaestina, e.g. at Naʿaran (nos. 2730 and 2734), and Barʿam and Ḥamat Gader (Naveh, nos. 1,33), and is found already in the Bible (e.g., 2 Kgs 19,2).
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, 3878.
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, not present. J., Naveh, 1978, On Stone and Mosaic: The Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Ancient Synagogues, Tel Aviv, 120-121, 80. S.H., Werlin, 2015, Ancient Synagogues of Southern Palestine, 300-800 C.E.: Living on the Edge, Leiden, 160.