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Dating: AD 401 - AD 600
Language: Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Monumental:
Medium: mosaic
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Activities commemorated: mosaic
Funds: unknown
Price: unknown
Placement: unknown
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Description

date: unknown, than Late Antique (4th-7th) description: Remains of JPA inscription on mosaic floor ed. Beyer 1984: 389 (ggKK 2) [רכיר לטב. בר] [יש[מעאל בר רעבר [הרה טב[לה תהי לה ברכתה [אמן] 1 "[Gedacht werde zum Guten des . . . des Sohnes] 2 des [Ismael (?) des Sohnes des . . ., der] 3 diesen Teil des Mosaiks [gestiftet hat! Ihm werde] 4 der Segen [zuteil! Amen]." 'Jo[...] be blessed' Milson 2007: 417 Beyer 1984: 389 (ggKK 2) Naveh 1978: 53-54 (31) Milson 2007: 417


Author: Tomasz Barański
Added by: Martyna
Created: 2022-10-27 14:45:46
Last update: 2023-12-12 08:56:58

Dimensions: surface: meter

Condition: Remains of JPA inscription on mosaic floor

Text:

Date: 401 CE - 600 CE

unknown, than Late Antique (4th-7th)

Findspot: Unknown

Original location: Palestine Kafr Kanna (Kefr Kana) 32.7475, 35.339444 Remains of a synagogue under a church unknown

Current repository: Unknown

Text type: mosaic inscription

Summary:

Partially preserved inscription in JPA script from Kafr Kanna (Kefr Kana). 401 CE - 600 CE.

Changes history: 2022-10-27 Tomasz Barański Creation; 2023-12-12 Martyna Swierk Last modification; 2023-12-12 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file

Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;

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Interpretive

[רכיר לטב. בר]
[מעאל בר רעבר]יש
[לה תהי לה]הרה טב
[אמן] ברכתה

Diplomatic

[..........]
[..........]יש
[.......]הרהטב
[...]ברכתה

Translation

1 "[Gedacht werde zum Guten des . . . des Sohnes] 2 des [Ismael (?) des Sohnes des . . ., der]
3 diesen Teil des Mosaiks [gestiftet hat! Ihm werde]
4 der Segen [zuteil! Amen]."
Beyer 1984: 389 (ggKK 2)

'Jo[...] be blessed'
Milson 2007: 417

Commentary

Bibliography (edition)

    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, 389.

Bibliography

    D.W., Milson, 2007, Art and Architecture of the Synagogue in Late Antique Palestine. In the Shadow of the Church, Leiden, 417. J., Naveh, 1978, On Stone and Mosaic: The Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Ancient Synagogues, Tel Aviv, 53-53 31.

Images

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