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Linguistic features:
Formulae:
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 400
-
AD 650
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Monumental:
Medium:
stone
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
Funds:
Price:
Placement:
sarcophagus lid
People mentioned:
Name:
Shimon
Patronym:
Abun
Status:
unspecified
Ethnic allegance:
Semitic
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
Name recorded
Occupation:
unspecified
Age:
26
Gender:
male
Religion:
Judaism
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Description
date: 400 – 650 CE description: The funerary inscription on the rectangular front panel of the sarcophagus lid. On one triangular end of the lid is a decoration of a rosette of four leaves enclosed in a circle; on the other end, the same decoration appears above a so-called "tree of life." Dimensions: 35 x 139 x 55 cm. Letters are 5-8 cm high. ed. IIP einn0003 שמעון בר אבון בר שנין כו šmʿwn br ʾbwn br šnyn kw 'Shimon, son of Abun. Twenty-six years old.' commentary: This Shimon seems to be the son of Abun who was commemorated in the Aramaic dedicatory inscription found in the synagogue in En Nashot. The numerical value of the last two letters sums up to 26, which seems to be the age of the deceased. The function of the second (br) is not clear. 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 41). Maoz, Z.U. "En Nashut" [in:] The New Encyclopedia of Archeological Excavations in the Holy Land, vol. 2, 1993: 414 https://library.brown.edu/iip/viewinscr/einn0003/
Author:
Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2023-01-31 17:29:30
Last update:
2024-01-20 08:09:43
Building:
Cemetery
Site:
'En Nashut; ῾Ein Nashot
Dimensions: surface: cm
Condition: The funerary inscription on the rectangular front panel of the sarcophagus lid. On one triangular end of the lid is a decoration of a rosette of four leaves enclosed in a circle; on the other end, the same decoration appears above a so-called "tree of life." Dimensions: 35 x 139 x 55 cm.
Text: Letter height: 5–8 cm
Date: 400 CE - 650 CE
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Palestina 'En Nashut (῾Ein Nashot) 32.992, 35.691 Cemetery sarcophagus lid
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: funerary inscription
Summary:
Sepulcral inscription in JPA script from 'En Nashut (῾Ein Nashot). 400 CE - 650 CE.
Changes history: 2023-01-31 Tomasz Barański Creation; 2024-01-20 Martyna Swierk Last modification; 2024-01-20 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
Available under licence CC-BY 4.0
; @2021Translation
'Shimon, son of Abun. Twenty-six years old'
Commentary
This Shimon seems to be the son of Abun who was commemorated in the Aramaic dedicatory inscription found in the synagogue in En Nashot. The numerical value of the last two letters sums up to 26, which seems to be the age of the deceased. The function of the second (br) is not clear.
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, 96. Z.U., Maoz, 1993, En Nashut, [in:] The New Encyclopedia of Archeological Excavations in the Holy Land 2, 414.