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Linguistic features:
Formulae:
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 564
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AD 564
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Monumental:
Medium:
stone
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
synagogue
Funds:
Price:
Placement:
door lintel
People mentioned:
Name:
Hanina
Patronym:
Lezer
Status:
religious_authority
Ethnic allegance:
Semitic
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
Name recorded
Occupation:
official
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Judaism
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Name:
Luliana
Patronym:
Yudan
Status:
religious_authority
Ethnic allegance:
Semitic
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
Name recorded
Occupation:
official
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Judaism
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Description
date: 564 CE description: The inscription carved in the front face of the lintel was written in a single line. Text decorated with seven-branched menorah circled by a wreath. The lintel is ength ca. 280cm. ed. Milson 2007: 52 למספר ארבע מאות ותישעים וארבע שנה לחרבן הבית / נבנה בשרר חנינא בן ליזר ולוליאנא בר יודן '(According) to the number four hundred and ninety four years after the destruction (of the Temple), the house was built during the office of Hanina son of Lezer and Luliana son of Yudan.' Milson 2007: 52, 483. Naveh 1978 : 31-33 (13) N. Avigad, The Lintel Inscription from the Ancient Synagogue of Kefar Niburaya, [in:] Bulletin of the Israel Exploration Society, vol. 21, (1960), pp. 136-145 (in Hebrew). https://www.jstor.org/stable/23731031 https://synagogues.kinneret.ac.il/synagogues/nabratein/
Author:
Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2023-03-31 20:33:36
Last update:
2024-01-20 19:52:29
Building:
Synagogue
Dimensions: surface: cm
Condition: The inscription carved in the front face of the lintel was written in a single line. Text decorated with seven-branched menorah circled by a wreath. The lintel is ength ca. 280cm.
Text:
Date: 564 CE
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Palestina Nabratein (Naburiya; Navoraya; Kefar Niburaya) 32.991892, 35.516739 Synagogue door lintel
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: dedicatory inscription
Summary:
Dedicatory inscription in JPA script from Nabratein (Naburiya; Navoraya; Kefar Niburaya). 564 CE
Changes history: 2023-03-31 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
'(According) to the number four hundred and ninety four years after the destruction (of the Temple), the house was built during the office of Hanina son of Lezer and Luliana son of Yudan'
Commentary
Bibliography (edition)
- D.W., Milson, 2007, Art and Architecture of the Synagogue in Late Antique Palestine. In the Shadow of the Church, Leiden, 483.
Bibliography
- J., Naveh, 1978, On Stone and Mosaic: The Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Ancient Synagogues, Tel Aviv, 31–33 (13). N., Avigad, 1960, The Lintel Inscription from the Ancient Synagogue of Kefar Niburaya, Bulletin of the Israel Exploration Society 120, 136-145 (in Hebrew).