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Dating:
AD 300
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AD 800
Language:
Greek
Monumental:
Medium:
stone
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Activities commemorated:
boundry stone
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Placement:
unknown
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Description
date: late antique description: Greek milestone/boundary stone, which exact findspot is unknown. Four lines of Greek text have been preserved. Dimensions: 26 cm high, 28 cm wide and 28 cm thick. Letters are ca. 3 cm high. ed. Urman 1995: 460–461 ...λίθον διο- ρίζοντα ὅρ- (ου?)ς Αρν.μ ευη[ν]ων... '… a stone demarking (the) boundaries? of …' commentary: The first two lines of the preserved text, that no doubt was originally preceded by several others, fit formula known from a number of Diocletian boundary stones discovered in the Golan. Althoug the form ΟΡΑΩΣ was clearly written here, it seems just as a mistake or an unusual spelling of ὄρους. In the third and fourth lines, the name of a landowner, a village, or a people are expected but the text remains illegible. 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 13:22:53
Last update:
2024-01-24 07:32:38
Building:
Miscellanea
Dimensions: surface: w 28 x h 26 x d 28 cm
Condition: Greek milestone/boundary stone, which exact findspot is unknown. Four lines of Greek text have been preserved.
Text: Letters high ca. 3 cm
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: milestone/boundary stone
Summary:
Greek milestone/boundary stone 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
'… a stone demarking (the) boundaries? of …'
Commentary
The first two lines of the preserved text, that no doubt was originally preceded by several others, fit formula known from a number of Diocletian boundary stones discovered in the Golan. Althoug the form ΟΡΑΩΣ was clearly written here, it seems just as a mistake or an unusual spelling of ὄρους. In the third and fourth lines, the name of a landowner, a village, or a people are expected but the text remains illegible.
Bibliography (edition)
- D., Urman, 1995, Public Structures and Jewish Community in the Golan Hights, [in:] Ancient Synagogues, ed.D. Urman and P. Flesher, Leiden, 460-461.
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.