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Linguistic features:
Formulae:
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 401
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AD 600
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Monumental:
Medium:
mosaic
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
Funds:
own property
Price:
Placement:
between columns
People mentioned:
Name:
Shimon
Patronym:
Status:
unspecified
Ethnic allegance:
Semitic
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
unknown
Occupation:
unspecified
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Judaism
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Description
date: 5th-6th c. description: Fragment of a JPA dedicatory inscription mentioning Shimon on the geometrical decorated mosaic floor space between the nave and the aisle. Between the fourth and fifth column from the west. The almost completely destroyed text that consists of few letters was possibly in the center of the damaged inscription. ed. IIP sepp0009 [...] שמע [...] '[...] Shimon [...]' commentary: This inscription has been almost entirely destroyed. If the reconstruction is right, the preserved text is the donor name or his father's name. Weiss, Zeev. The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2005, p. 207-208. https://library.brown.edu/iip/viewinscr/sepp0009/
Author:
Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-11-21 20:56:14
Last update:
2023-12-16 13:24:04
Building:
Synagogue
Dimensions: surface: cm
Condition: Fragment of a JPA dedicatory inscription mentioning Shimon on the geometrical decorated mosaic floor space between the nave and the aisle. Between the fourth and fifth column from the west. The almost completely destroyed text that consists of few letters was possibly in the center of the damaged inscription.
Text:
Date: 401 CE - 600 CE
5th-6th century
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Palestine Sepphoris (Zippori; Saffuriye) 32.745556, 35.278611 Synagogue between columns
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: mosaic inscription
Summary:
Fragment of a JPA dedicatory inscription on mosaic from Sepphoris (Zippori; Saffuriye). 401 CE - 600 CE.
Changes history: 2022-11-21 Tomasz Barański Creation; 2023-12-16 Martyna Swierk Last modification; 2023-12-16 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
Available under licence CC-BY 4.0
; @2021Translation
'[Remembered be for good...] Agirah and his sons. Amen. Amen'
Commentary
This inscription has been almost entirely destroyed. If the reconstruction is right, the preserved text is the donor name or his father's name.
Bibliography
- Z., Weiss, 2005, The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts, Jerusalem, 207-208.