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Quotations from literary texts:
Num. 28:4
Dating:
AD 400
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AD 600
Language:
Hebrew
Monumental:
Medium:
mosaic
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Placement:
nave
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Description
date: 5ht-6th c. description: Hebrew labels in the Band 3 and Band 4 in the nave mosaic. The characters are ca. 5 cm high. Ornaments in Band 3 (The Temple and the Consecration of Aaron): Next to the erased figure standing left of the altar; above a lamb and a bull, in Band 4 (Animals for the perpetual sacrifice): The labels are above representations of another lamb, a jar, trumpets, and a square-shaped receptacle. ed. (Weiss 2005: 199-200): Band 3: אהרן (Aaron) את החכבס אחד (the one lamb) Band 4: ואת החכבש השני (and the second lamb) שמן (oil) סלת (fine flour) חצוצרה (trumpets) commentary: Some part of this text repeats Num. 28:4. These scenes with labeled figures were meant to illustrate the narrative given in Exodus 29. The spelling of the word for lamb in the same inscription, once ended with samekh and other time with shin was not a a textual corruption but a representation of a common exchange of these letters that is attested in dedicatory inscriptions and midrashim. Weiss, Z. The Sepphoris Synagogue. Deciphering an Ancient Message through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historic Contexts. Jerusalem, 2005, p. 79-81, 199-200.
Author:
Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-11-17 14:19:28
Last update:
2023-12-14 11:13:29
Building:
Synagogue
Dimensions: surface: cm
Condition: Hebrew labels in the Band 3 and Band 4 in the nave mosaic. Ornaments in Band 3 (The Temple and the Consecration of Aaron): Next to the erased figure standing left of the altar; above a lamb and a bull, in Band 4 (Animals for the perpetual sacrifice): The labels are above representations of another lamb, a jar, trumpets, and a square-shaped receptacle.
Text: Letter height 5 cm
Date: 401 CE - 600 CE
5th-6th century
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Palestine Sepphoris (Zippori; Saffuriye) 32.745556, 35.278611 Synagogue nave
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: mosaic inscription
Summary:
Hebrew labels on mosaic from Sepphoris (Zippori; Saffuriye). 401 CE - 600 CE.
Changes history: 2022-11-17 Tomasz Barański Creation; 2023-12-14 Martyna Swierk Last modification; 2023-12-14 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
Available under licence CC-BY 4.0
; @2021Commentary
Some part of this text repeats Num. 28:4. These scenes with labeled figures were meant to illustrate the narrative given in Exodus 29. The spelling of the word for lamb in the same inscription, once ended with samekh and other time with shin was not a a textual corruption but a representation of a common exchange of these letters that is attested in dedicatory inscriptions and midrashim.
Bibliography
- Z., Weiss, 2005, The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts, Jerusalem, 79-81, 199-200.