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Dating:
AD 501
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AD 600
Language:
Hebrew
Monumental:
Medium:
mosaic
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Activities commemorated:
unknown
Funds:
; unknown
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unknown
Placement:
mosaic floor
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Description
date: early 6 c. AD (508 AD? as CIIP III 2460) description: Mosaic floor depicting King David, playing a harp, is pictured as Orpheus charming the animals surrounding him. The scene is put between two richly decorated lintels with geometrical motives. Dimensions: 41.5 in height, and 125 cm in width. Four Hebrew letters are set in a mosaic floor. Size of the letters: 6-6.5 cm (taken from the replica in the Good Samaritan Museum as stated in CIIP III 2461). דויד dwyd 'David' commentary: The name of David appears next to his head, like the labels of biblical figures in the Beth Alfa mosaic and Dura Europos paintings. The Greek inscription CIIP III 2460 dated to 508 CE was part of the same floor so it could have been built in the same time. CIIP III 2461 Beyer 1984: 365 (yyGA 1) Milson 2007: 362 and 50-51 Naveh 1978: 91 (no. 55) Werlin 2015: 237-262 (espec. 252-260) https://synagogues.kinneret.ac.il/synagogues/gaza/
Author:
Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-06-01 15:25:37
Last update:
2024-03-27 14:50:53
Dimensions: surface: w 125 x h 41,5 cm
Condition: Mosaic floor depicting King David, playing a harp, is pictured as Orpheus charming the animals surrounding him. The scene is put between two richly decorated lintels with geometrical motives. Four Hebrew letters are set in a mosaic floor.
Text: Size of the letters: 6-6.5 cm
Date: 501 CE - 600 CE
early 6 c. AD (508 AD? as CIIP III 2460)
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Palestine Gaza 31.516667, 34.45 Synagogue mosaic floor
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: mosaic inscription
Summary:
Inscription on mosaic in Hebrew script from Gaza. AD 501 - AD 600.
Changes history: 2022-06-01 Tomasz Barański Creation; 2024-03-27 Martyna Swierk Last modification; 2023-12-02 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
Available under licence CC-BY 4.0
; @2021Commentary
The name of David appears next to his head, like the labels of biblical figures in the Beth Alfa mosaic and Dura Europos paintings. The Greek inscription CIIP III 2460 dated to 508 CE was part of the same floor so it could have been built in the same time.
Bibliography
- CIIP III 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 III: South Coast: 2161-2648. a, Berlin, Boston, 2461. K., Beyer, 1984, Die aramäischen Texte vom Toten Meer: samt den Inschriften aus Palästina, dem Testament Levis aus der Kairoer Genisa, der Fastenrolle und den alten Talmudischen Zitaten, Gottingen, 365. D.W., Milson, 2007, Art and Architecture of the Synagogue in Late Antique Palestine. In the Shadow of the Church, Leiden, 326; 50-51. J., Naveh, 1978, On Stone and Mosaic: The Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Ancient Synagogues, Tel Aviv, 91, 55. S.H., Werlin, 2015, Ancient Synagogues of Southern Palestine, 300-800 C.E.: Living on the Edge, Leiden, 237-262 (espec. 252-260).