Complete
Linguistic features:
Formulae:
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 201
-
AD 600
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Monumental:
Medium:
stone
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
column?
Funds:
unknown
Price:
unknown
Placement:
column
People mentioned:
Name:
Mathia
Patronym:
Status:
religious_authority
Ethnic allegance:
Semitic
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
Benefactor
Occupation:
rabbi
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Judaism
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Description
date: 3rd – 6th century CE description: Lost Aramaic inscription. The exact findspot is unknown, but the text is on a column. ed. Beyer 1984: 387 […] רכיר לטב דמתחזק […] דעביר "Gedacht werde zum Guten dessen, der einen Beitrag leistet [. . .], das gemacht ist [. . .]". 'Let there be remembered for good Rabbi Mathia, son of [...] that made […] this column […] Amen' Milson 2007: 475 commentary: The inscription is now lost. The reading is uncertain. Beyer 1984: 387 Milson 2007: 475-476 Naveh 1978: 24-25 (5)
Author:
Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-11-02 11:14:26
Last update:
2024-03-27 10:17:51
Building:
Synagogue
Dimensions: surface: cm
Condition: Lost Aramaic inscription. The exact findspot is unknown, but the text is on a column.
Text:
Date: 201 CE - 600 CE
3rd – 6th century CE
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Palestine Yesud Ha-Ma'ala (Yesud Hamala; Jessud-Hammaale) 33.05, 35.6 Synagogue column
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: dedicatory inscription
Summary:
Lost inscription in JPA script from Yesud Ha-Ma'ala (Yesud Hamala; Jessud-Hammaale). 201 CE - 600 CE.
Changes history: 2022-11-02 Tomasz Barański Creation; 2024-03-27 Martyna Swierk Last modification; 2023-12-12 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
Available under licence CC-BY 4.0
; @2021Translation
"Gedacht werde zum Guten dessen, der einen Beitrag leistet [. . .], das gemacht ist [. . .]". (Beyer 1984: 387)
'Let there be remembered for good Rabbi Mathia, son of [...] that made […] this column […] Amen'
Milson 2007: 475
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, 387.
Bibliography
- D.W., Milson, 2007, Art and Architecture of the Synagogue in Late Antique Palestine. In the Shadow of the Church, Leiden, 475–476. J., Naveh, 1978, On Stone and Mosaic: The Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Ancient Synagogues, Tel Aviv, 24-25 5.