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Linguistic features:
Formulae:
ܕܟܝܪ Remembered be so-and-so
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 400
-
AD 600
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Monumental:
Medium:
stone
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
column
Funds:
own property
Price:
Placement:
column
People mentioned:
Name:
Shimʿon
Patronym:
Status:
religious_authority
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 CE description: A fragment of a column with the remains of three lines of a probably four-line inscription in elegant Hebrew letters. Dimensions: 16x15x11 cm (the column was 48 cm in diameter). ed. CIIP III 2289 [דכיר לטב][...][בר[ ]שמע[ון דזבן ]הדין[ [עמוד]ה בש[...] [...]תה[...] [dkyr lṭb] […] [br[ [šmʿ]wn dzbn [hdyn] [ʿmwd]h bš[…] […]th[…] 'Remembered for good be ... son of? Shimʿon, who bought (this) column in/for ...' commentary: This inscription commemorates the donation of a column to a synagogue. The final nun of dzbn (“who bought”) is reconstructed on the basis of the appearance of this word in a synagogue inscription from Beit Guvrin. The reconstrition of the word brkth (“blessing”) in the last line would be too speclative, another possible option is ʾntth [“his wife”]. Beyer, Erganzungband, 1994: 235 (yyHH 1) Fischer, Taxel, Amit, BASOR 350, 2008: 12-13, fig. 6 CIIP III 2289 https://library.brown.edu/iip/viewinscr/yavn0004/
Author:
Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-12-29 16:32:29
Last update:
2024-01-15 19:16:01
Building:
Unexcavated synagogue
Dimensions: surface: cm
Condition: A fragment of a column with the remains of three lines of a probably four-line inscription in elegant Hebrew letters. Dimensions: 16x15x11 cm (the column was 48 cm in diameter).
Text:
Date: 400 CE - 600 CE
5th-6th century CE
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Palestina Horvat Habra (Khirbet Habra; el-Mughar) 31.883333, 34.733333 Unexcavated synagogue column
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: dedicatory inscription
Summary:
Dedicatory inscription on a column in JPA script from Horvat Habra (Khirbet Habra; el-Mughar). 400 CE - 600 CE.
Changes history: 2022-12-29 Tomasz Barański Creation; 2024-01-15 Martyna Swierk Last modification; 2024-01-15 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
Available under licence CC-BY 4.0
; @2021Translation
'Remembered for good be ... son of? Shimʿon, who bought (this) column in/for ...'
Commentary
This inscription commemorates the donation of a column to a synagogue. The final nun of dzbn (“who bought”) is reconstructed on the basis of the appearance of this word in a synagogue inscription from Beit Guvrin. The reconstrition of the word brkth (“blessing”) in the last line would be too speclative, another possible option is ʾntth [“his wife”].
Bibliography (edition)
- CIIP III W., Ameling, H., Cotton, W., Eck, A., Ecker, B., Isaac, A., Kushnir-Stein, H., Misgav, J., Price, P., Weiß, A., Yardeni, 2023, Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. Volume III: South Coast: 2161-2648. a, Berlin, Boston, 2289.
Bibliography
- K., Beyer, 1994, Die aramäischen Texte vom Toten Meer. Ergänzungsband: Samt Den Inschriften Aus Palastina, Dem Testament Levis Aus Der Lairoer Genisa, Der Fastenrolle Und Den Alten Talmudischen Zitaten, Gottingen, 235. M., Fisher, I., Taxel, D., Amit, 2008, Rural Settlement in the Vicinity of Yavneh in the Byzantine Period: A Religio-Archaeological Perspective, BASOR 350, 12–13, fig. 6.