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Linguistic features:
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Dating:
AD 400
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AD 600
Language:
Samaritan Aramaic
Monumental:
Medium:
stone
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Placement:
lintel
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Description
date: 5-6 c. CE description: Samaritan inscription on the fragment of a lintel. The text is written only in a part of the stone. Two lines of letters in paleo-Hebrew, the so-called Samaritan script. Description: 14x78 cm. ed. CIIP IV 3082 [ופ]סח יהוה על פתח ולא יתן המשית לבא [wp]sḥ YHWH ʿl ptḥ | wlʾ ytn hmšyt lbʾ 'And the Lord will pass over (the) door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come (into your houses to smite you).' commentary: The text is a quotation from Exodus 12: 23, with minor orthographic changes. It is another protective formula, which was used as a mezuzah. CIIP IV 3082
Author:
Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2023-08-28 11:49:19
Last update:
2024-01-28 14:21:27
Building:
Unknown (synagogue or private houses?)
Dimensions: surface: cm
Condition: Samaritan inscription on the fragment of a lintel. The text is written only in a part of the stone. Two lines of letters in paleo-Hebrew, the so-called Samaritan script. Description: 14x78 cm.
Text:
Date: 400 CE - 600 CE
5th-6th c. CE
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Palestina Emmaus (Nicopolis; 'Imwas) 31.8393, 34.989458 Unknown (synagogue or private houses?) lintel
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: religious inscription
Summary:
Inscription in Samaritan Aramaic script from Emmaus (Nicopolis; 'Imwas). 400 CE - 600 CE.
Changes history: 2023-08-28 Tomasz Barański Creation; 2024-01-28 Martyna Swierk Last modification; 2024-01-28 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
Available under licence CC-BY 4.0
; @2021Translation
'And the Lord will pass over (the) door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come (into your houses to smite you)'
Commentary
The text is a quotation from Exodus 12: 23, with minor orthographic changes. It is another protective formula, which was used as a mezuzah.
Bibliography (edition)
- CIIP IV W., Ameling, H., Cotton, W., Eck, A., Ecker, B., Isaac, A., Kushnir-Stein, H., Misgav, J., Price, P., Weiß, A., Yardeni, 2023, Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. Volume IV: Iudaea/Idumaea, Berlin, Boston, 3082.