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Linguistic features:
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Dating:
AD 300
-
AD 800
Language:
Greek
Monumental:
Medium:
stone
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
Funds:
Price:
Placement:
unknown
People mentioned:
Name:
Simon
Patronym:
Justinos
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:
Greek
Description
date: late antique description: Greek inscription with name, exact findspot is unknown. The text on a (basalt?) stone was found and published by Schumacher but its dimensions were not given. ed. Urman 1995: 457–458: Σιμων Ιουστινο[υ] 'Simon, son of Justinus' commentary: Since the inscription has not been attested by later surveyors, it is difficult to determine if thi was a section of a dedicatory or grave inscription. The latter, however, seems more plausible. The name Simon, which is the Greek pronunciation of the Hebrew Shim’on, is known as a Jewish name from literary sources of the rabbinic period and from the epitaph, for instance at Beth She’arim. The father’s name, however, seems unattested as a Jewish name in the inscriptions of this period. The literary sources know similar forms for the Latin renderings of the Hebrew name Zadok, which was common among the Jews of Plaestine at that time, for instance Rabbi Justini. The names such as Simon, Justa, Justini, or Justinos are attested in the necropolis of Beth She’arim and dated to the fourth century CE. Thus the inscription can be tentatively dated to this period onwards. For more see Urman 1995: 457-458. Urman, D. "Public Structures and Jewish Communities in the Golan Heights" [in:] Ancient Synagogues, ed. D. Urman and P. Flesher, Leiden, 1995: 455-461. Gregg, R. C., Urman, D., 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, vol. 140, 1996, p. 89-94.
Author:
Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2023-05-25 13:20:29
Last update:
2024-01-24 07:20:40
Building:
Miscellanea
Dimensions: surface: cm
Condition: Greek inscription with name, exact findspot is unknown. The text on a (basalt?) stone was found and published by Schumacher but its dimensions were not given.
Text:
Date: 300 CE - 800 CE
late antique
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Palestina Akhmadiyye (Aḥmadiyye; Amudiyye) 32.992, 35.691 Miscellanea unknown
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: public inscription
Summary:
Greek inscription with a name from Akhmadiyye (Aḥmadiyye; Amudiyye). 300 CE - 800 CE.
Changes history: 2023-05-25 Tomasz Barański Creation; 2024-01-24 Martyna Swierk Last modification; 2024-01-24 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
Available under licence CC-BY 4.0
; @2021Translation
'Simon, son of Justinus'
Commentary
Since the inscription has not been attested by later surveyors, it is difficult to determine if thi was a section of a dedicatory or grave inscription. The latter, however, seems more plausible. The name Simon, which is the Greek pronunciation of the Hebrew Shim’on, is known as a Jewish name from literary sources of the rabbinic period and from the epitaph, for instance at Beth She’arim. The father’s name, however, seems unattested as a Jewish name in the inscriptions of this period. The literary sources know similar forms for the Latin renderings of the Hebrew name Zadok, which was common among the Jews of Plaestine at that time, for instance Rabbi Justini. The names such as Simon, Justa, Justini, or Justinos are attested in the necropolis of Beth She’arim and dated to the fourth century CE. Thus the inscription can be tentatively dated to this period onwards. For more see Urman 1995: 457-458.
Bibliography (edition)
- D., Urman, 1995, Public Structures and Jewish Community in the Golan Hights, [in:] Ancient Synagogues, ed.D. Urman and P. Flesher, Leiden, 455-461.
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, 89–94.