Complete
Linguistic features:
Formulae:
Quotations from literary texts:
Dating:
AD 301
-
AD 800
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Monumental:
Medium:
stone
Visible:
Accessible:
Has figural depiction:
Has iconoclastic damage:
Activities commemorated:
chancel screen?
Funds:
; unknown
Price:
unknown
Placement:
chancel screen
People mentioned:
Name:
Laʿzar
Patronym:
Shimʿon son of Laʿzar
Status:
unspecified
Ethnic allegance:
Semitic
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
son
Role:
Benefactor
Occupation:
unspecified
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Judaism
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Name:
Isai
Patronym:
Shimʿon son of Laʿzar
Status:
unspecified
Ethnic allegance:
Semitic
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
son
Role:
Benefactor
Occupation:
unspecified
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Judaism
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Name:
Shimʿon
Patronym:
Laʿzar
Status:
unspecified
Ethnic allegance:
Semitic
Tribal allegane:
none
Family status:
father
Role:
Name recorded
Occupation:
unspecified
Age:
Gender:
male
Religion:
Judaism
Religious denomination:
unspecified
Language:
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Description
date: 4-8 c. CE description: Marble chancel screen with Aramaic inscription founded among the ruins in the synagogue. The text is incised just below a double-strand guilloche border. Single-line inscription with large gap between the first two words. Dimensions: 110 cm wide. ed. (CIIP IV 3876): דכרין לטב לעזר ואיסי בנויי דשמעון בר לעזר dkryn lṭb lʿzr wʾysy bnwyy dšmʿwn br lʿzr 'May they be remembered for the good, Laʿzar and Isi/Isai, sons of Shimʿon son of Laʿzar.' commentary: (by CIIP IV 3876) The original editor was confident that this inscription is complete, which is not at all certain: while the space after the last word indicates that it is the end of a line, more lines may have existed, or it could have continued on an adjacent part of the screen. The gap between the first and second words indicates something like an ornament which was once there , since the inscription was written around it. Dkryn is spelled defectively, without the yod which regularly marks the passive participle. bnwyy “his sons” represents one of various spellings of this word, its standard, historical spelling being bnwhy. For the name ʾysy, see CIIP IV 3870, where a respected rabbi by that name is mentioned. The name Laʿzar is too common to identify this Laʿzar with the one mentioned in CIIP IV 3877; a priest by that name is found at nearby Eshtemoa, CIIP IV 3868. CIIP IV 3876 Beyer 1984: 367-368 (yySU 4) Naveh 1978: 121 (no 81) Werlin 2015: 162-165 https://library.brown.edu/iip/viewinscr/ksus0008/
Author:
Tomasz Barański
Added by:
Martyna
Created:
2022-07-21 13:55:20
Last update:
2024-03-27 14:56:09
Dimensions: surface: w 110 cm
Condition: Marble chancel screen with Aramaic inscription founded among the ruins in the synagogue. The text is incised just below a double-strand guilloche border. Single-line inscription with large gap between the first two words.
Text:
Date: 301 CE - 800 CE
4-8 c. CE
Findspot: Unknown
Original location: Palestine Susiya 31.391944, 35.112222 Synagogue chancel screen
Current repository: Unknown
Text type: dedicatory inscription
Summary:
Dedicatory inscription in JPA script from Susiya. AD 301 - AD 800.
Changes history: 2022-07-21 Tomasz Barański Creation; 2024-03-27 Martyna Swierk Last modification; 2023-12-08 Martyna Swierk Preparation of EpiDoc file
Publication details: University of Warsaw; Warsaw;
Available under licence CC-BY 4.0
; @2021Translation
'May they be remembered for the good, Laʿzar and Isi/Isai, sons of Shimʿon son of Laʿzar.'
Commentary
(by CIIP IV 3876) The original editor was confident that this inscription is complete, which is not at all certain: while the space after the last word indicates that it is the end of a line, more lines may have existed, or it could have continued on an adjacent part of the screen. The gap between the first and second words indicates something like an ornament which was once there , since the inscription was written around it. Dkryn is spelled defectively, without the yod which regularly marks the passive participle. bnwyy “his sons” represents one of various spellings of this word, its standard, historical spelling being bnwhy. For the name ʾysy, see CIIP IV 3870, where a respected rabbi by that name is mentioned. The name Laʿzar is too common to identify this Laʿzar with the one mentioned in CIIP IV 3877; a priest by that name is found at nearby Eshtemoa, CIIP IV 3868.
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, 3876.
Bibliography
- 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, 367–368. J., Naveh, 1978, On Stone and Mosaic: The Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Ancient Synagogues, Tel Aviv, 121, 81. S.H., Werlin, 2015, Ancient Synagogues of Southern Palestine, 300-800 C.E.: Living on the Edge, Leiden, 162-165.