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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:
unknown
Funds:
own property
Price:
Placement:
right aisle
People mentioned:
Name:
Samqah
Patronym:
Tanhum
Status:
unspecified
Ethnic allegance:
Semitic
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
son
Role:
Benefactor
Occupation:
unspecified
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Judaism
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Name:
Tanhum
Patronym:
Yudan
Status:
unspecified
Ethnic allegance:
Semitic
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
father
Role:
Benefactor
Occupation:
unspecified
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Judaism
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Name:
Nehorai
Patronym:
Yudan
Status:
unspecified
Ethnic allegance:
Semitic
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
son
Role:
Benefactor
Occupation:
unspecified
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Judaism
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Description
date: 5th-6th c. description: JPA dedicatory inscription of Tanhum son of Yudan, and Samqah and Nehorai sons of Tanhum on the eight circle from the west in the aisle mosaic. Each panel in the aisle mosaic is 38x38 cm, decorated with geometrical pattern. Six lines of this text are preserved intact. ed. IIP sepp0005 דכירן לטב תנחום בר יודן וסמקה ונהרי בנוי דתנחום אמן 'Remembered be for good Tanhum son of Yudan, and Samqah and Nehorai sons of Tanhum . Amen.' commentary: This inscriptions notes the names of the father (Tanhum) an his two sons (Samqah, Nehorai). There is a Yudan son Tanhum, thus the opposite order of names and seniority, in the mosaic discovered in another synagogue, which was found next to the Church od Saint Anne at Sepphoris. If there is a connection between two inscriptions, Tanhum son of Yudan from this inscription was the son of the person commorated in the other synagogue, or that Tanhum was a father of the Yudan mentioned here. Weiss, Zeev. The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2005, p.205. https://library.brown.edu/iip/viewinscr/sepp0005/
Author:
Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-11-21 20:15:19
Last update:
2023-12-15 12:22:49
Building:
Synagogue
Dimensions: surface: w 38 x h 38 cm
Condition: JPA dedicatory inscription of Tanhum son of Yudan, and Samqah and Nehorai sons of Tanhum on the eight circle from the west in the aisle mosaic. Each panel in the aisle mosaic is 38x38 cm, decorated with geometrical pattern. Six lines of this text are preserved intact.
Text:
Date: 401 CE - 600 CE
5th-6th century
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Palestine Sepphoris (Zippori; Saffuriye) 32.745556, 35.278611 Synagogue right aisle
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: mosaic inscription
Summary:
Dedicatory inscription on mosaic in JPA script from Sepphoris (Zippori; Saffuriye). 401 CE - 600 CE.
Changes history: 2022-11-21 Tomasz Barański Creation; 2023-12-15 Martyna Swierk Last modification; 2023-12-15 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
Available under licence CC-BY 4.0
; @2021Translation
'Remembered be for good Tanhum son of Yudan, and Samqah and Nehorai sons of Tanhum . Amen.'
Commentary
This inscriptions notes the names of the father (Tanhum) an his two sons (Samqah, Nehorai). There is a Yudan son Tanhum, thus the opposite order of names and seniority, in the mosaic discovered in another synagogue, which was found next to the Church od Saint Anne at Sepphoris. If there is a connection between two inscriptions, Tanhum son of Yudan from this inscription was the son of the person commorated in the other synagogue, or that Tanhum was a father of the Yudan mentioned here.
Bibliography
- Z., Weiss, 2005, The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts, Jerusalem, 205.