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Linguistic features:
Formulae:
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 400
-
AD 650
Language:
Greek
Monumental:
Medium:
stone
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
Funds:
Price:
Placement:
sarcophagus lid
People mentioned:
Name:
Joses (Yose?)
Patronym:
Zanneas (Zano?)
Status:
unspecified
Ethnic allegance:
Semitic
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
Name recorded
Occupation:
unspecified
Age:
70
Gender:
male
Religion:
Judaism
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Greek
Description
date: 400 – 650 CE description: Sepulcral inscription in Greek script on the rectangular front panel of the sarcophagus lid. On the left triangular end of the lid is a decoration of a rosette with six leaves enclosed in a circle. There is also a depiction of the so-called "tree of life" or menorah. Dimensions: 35 x 150 cm x 53 cm. Letter are ca. 5 cm high ed. IIP einn0004 Ἰοσῆς Ζαννεου ἐτ(ῶν) ο´ 'Joses, son of Zanneas (Zano?). Seventy years old.' commentary: This Joses may be identified with Yose, the farther of Abun, known from the Aramaic inscription which was found in the synagogue at En Nashot. 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: 97 (no. 93). 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/einn0004
Author:
Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2023-01-31 17:32:52
Last update:
2024-01-20 08:26:51
Building:
Cemetery
Site:
'En Nashut; ῾Ein Nashot
Dimensions: surface: cm
Condition: Sepulcral inscription in Greek script on the rectangular front panel of the sarcophagus lid. On the left triangular end of the lid is a decoration of a rosette with six leaves enclosed in a circle. There is also a depiction of the so-called "tree of life" or menorah. Dimensions: 35 x 150 cm x 53 cm.
Text: Letter height: ca. 5 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 Greek 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
'Joses, son of Zanneas (Zano?). Seventy years old'
Commentary
This Joses may be identified with Yose, the farther of Abun, known from the Aramaic inscription which was found in the synagogue at En Nashot.
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, 97, 93. Z.U., Maoz, 1993, En Nashut, [in:] The New Encyclopedia of Archeological Excavations in the Holy Land 2, 414.