Complete
Linguistic features:
Formulae:
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 100
-
AD 499
Language:
Greek; Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Monumental:
Medium:
stone
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
Tomb?
Funds:
Price:
Placement:
lintel
People mentioned:
Name:
Yosef
Patronym:
‘Uzi
Status:
unspecified
Ethnic allegance:
Semitic
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
unspecified
Role:
Name recorded
Occupation:
unspecified
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Judaism
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
JPA/Greek
Description
date: 100 CE to 499 CE according to IIP Firi0001 description: Bilingual Greek-Aramaic funerary inscription on a lintel. Limestone lintel separated into two parts by triglyphs. There is a rosette on the right side, and the bilingual inscription in separate registers on the left side. Lintel is 55x99 cm The text is in two tabalae anastae, each is 20 cm wide and ca.15 cm high. The Hebrew letters (two lines) in the upper tabula are 2.5-8 cm high. The Greek letter (three lines) in the lower tabula are 3-4 cm high. ed. CIIP V 6113 יוסף בר עזי μνήμη [Ιώ]σηπ- ος Αζεου '(Aramaic) Yosef son of ‘Uzi (Greek) Tomb. Iosepus (son) of Azeus.' commentary: The inscription is stored in Hecht Museum in Haifa. It has never been properly published before the edition published in the most recent volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae (CIIP V 6113). The given name of Joseph in Greek is in the nominative. It should be rather expressed in the genitive as most likely connected to the preceding word that determine the aim of dedication. CIIP V 6113 https://library.brown.edu/iip/viewinscr/firi0001/
Author:
Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2023-04-27 13:59:47
Last update:
2024-01-20 22:51:31
Building:
Synagogue or tomb?
Dimensions: surface: w 15 x h 20 cm
Condition: Bilingual Greek-Aramaic funerary inscription on a lintel. Limestone lintel separated into two parts by triglyphs. There is a rosette on the right side, and the bilingual inscription in separate registers on the left side. Lintel is 55x99 cm The text is in two tabalae anastae, each is 20 cm wide and ca.15 cm high. The Hebrew letters (two lines) in the upper tabula are 2.5-8 cm high. The Greek letter (three lines) in the lower tabula are 3-4 cm high.
Text: Letter height: Hebrew letters – 2.5-8 cm; Greek letters – 3-4 cm.
Date: 100 CE - 499 CE
according to IIP Firi0001
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Palestina Firim (Firam; Kfar Par'am) 33.058333, 35.433333 Synagogue lintel
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: funerary inscription
Summary:
Bilingual funerary inscription from Firim (Firam; Kfar Par'am). 100 CE - 499 CE.
Changes history: 2023-04-27 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
; @2021Commentary
The inscription is stored in Hecht Museum in Haifa. It has never been properly published before the edition published in the most recent volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae (CIIP V 6113). The given name of Joseph in Greek is in the nominative. It should be rather expressed in the genitive as most likely connected to the preceding word that determine the aim of dedication.
Bibliography (edition)
- CIIP V W., Ameling, H., Cotton, W., Eck, A., Ecker, B., Isaac, A., Kushnir-Stein, J., Price, P., Weiß, A., Yardeni, 2023, Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. Volume 5/Part 1 Galilaea and Northern Regions: 5876-6924, Berlin, Boston, 6113.