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Linguistic features:
Formulae:
ܕܟܝܪ Remembered be so-and-so
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 401
-
AD 600
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Monumental:
Medium:
mosaic
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
mosaic panel
Funds:
own property
Price:
Placement:
nave
People mentioned:
Name:
Aninah
Patronym:
Status:
unspecified
Ethnic allegance:
Semitic
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
father
Role:
Name recorded
Occupation:
unspecified
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Judaism
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Description
date: 5th-6th century description: JPA dedicatory inscription of the son of Aninah. Three lines of Aramaic text on the upper margin of the left-most part of the Band 4. The upper right corner of the inscription is destroyed. The panel depicts animals for the perpetual (daily) sacrifice. ed. IIP sepp0010 דכיר לטב][...] בר אנינה בר] א ובנוי דעבר[...] הדן טבלה] אמן] '[Remembered be for good...] son of Aninah son of [...]a and his sons who made [this panel]. Amen.' commentary: The proposed reconstruction of the line 3 reflects the Aramaic translation of the belssing formula from the Greek dedicatory inscriptions that were found in the other panels of the same mosaic. Weiss, Zeev. The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2005, p. 208. https://library.brown.edu/iip/viewinscr/sepp0010/
Author:
Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-11-17 14:21:40
Last update:
2023-12-14 11:55:20
Building:
Synagogue
Dimensions: surface: cm
Condition: JPA dedicatory inscription of the son of Aninah. Three lines of Aramaic text on the upper margin of the left-most part of the Band 4. The upper right corner of the inscription is destroyed. The panel depicts animals for the perpetual (daily) sacrifice.
Text:
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:
Deidcatory inscription 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
; @2021Translation
'[Remembered be for good...] son of Aninah son of [...]a and his sons who made [this panel]. Amen.'
Commentary
The proposed reconstruction of the line 3 reflects the Aramaic translation of the belssing formula from the Greek dedicatory inscriptions that were found in the other panels of the same mosaic.
Bibliography
- Z., Weiss, 2005, The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts, Jerusalem, 208.