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Dating: AD 400 - AD 650
Language: Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Monumental:
Medium: stone
Visible:
Accessible:
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Placement: architrave
People mentioned:
Name:
Abun
Patronym:
Yose
Status:
unspecified
Ethnic allegance:
unspecified
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
Benefactor
Occupation:
unspecified
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Judaism
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic

Description

date: 400-650 CE description: The JPA inscription on the architrave fragment in the synagogue hall. The relief depicts Hercules knot with snake-like ends and two rosettes. Dimensions: 24x268 cm, with a depth of ca. 24 cm. The letters’ height is 4-5 cm. ed. IIP einn0002 אבון בר יוסה 'Abun, son of Yose.' commentary: The same name is recorder in the funerary inscription of Rabbi Abun in nearby Qasrin (https://epi-identity-database.uw.edu.pl/inscription/211). Both inscriptions were linked together what is possible but not certain. Later another Aramaic inscription, mentioning Shimon son of Abun, was found on a sarcophagus lid in En Nashot itself. The name Yose is also attested at this site, as there is a Greek inscription on another sarcophagus lid which commemorates one Yose son of Zanno. Gregg, Robert C., Urman. D., Jews, Pagans, and Christians in the Golan Heights: Greek and Other Inscriptions of the Roman and Byzantine Eras. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996, 96 (AF 40). Maoz, Z.U. "En Nashut" [in:] The New Encyclopedia of Archeological Excavations in the Holy Land, vol. 2, 1993: 414. Urman, D., Ancient Synagogues: Historical Analysis and Archaeological Discovery, vol. II, 1995, 444.


Author: Tomasz Barański
Added by: Martyna
Created: 2023-01-31 17:24:38
Last update: 2024-03-28 18:40:37

Dimensions: surface: w 268 x h 24 x d 24 cm

Condition: The JPA inscription on the architrave fragment in the synagogue hall. The relief depicts Hercules knot with snake-like ends and two rosettes.

Text: Letter height 4-5 cm

Date: 400 CE - 650 CE

Findspot: Unknown

Original location: Palestina 'En Nashut (῾Ein Nashot) 32.992, 35.691 Synagogue architrave

Current repository: Unknown

Text type: public inscription

Summary:

Inscription in JPA script from 'En Nashut (῾Ein Nashot). 400 CE - 650 CE.

Changes history: 2023-01-31 Tomasz Barański Creation; 2024-01-19 Martyna Swierk Last modification; 2024-01-19 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file

Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;

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Interpretive

אבון בר יוסה

Diplomatic

אבוןבריוסה

Translation

'Abun, son of Yose.'

Commentary

The same name is recorder in the funerary inscription of Rabbi Abun in nearby Qasrin (https://epi-identity-database.uw.edu.pl/inscription/211). Both inscriptions were linked together what is possible but not certain. Later another Aramaic inscription, mentioning Shimon son of Abun, was found on a sarcophagus lid in En Nashot itself. The name Yose is also attested at this site, as there is a Greek inscription on another sarcophagus lid which commemorates one Yose son of Zanno.

Bibliography

    R.C., Gregg, D, Urman, 1996, Jews, Pagans, and Christians in the Golan Heights: Greek and Other Inscriptions of the Roman and Byzantine Eras, South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism 140, 94. Z.U., Maoz, 1993, En Nashut, [in:] The New Encyclopedia of Archeological Excavations in the Holy Land 2, 414. D., Urman, 1995, Ancient Synagogues: Historical Analysis and Archaeological Discovery, 2, 444.

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