13.107. ?Jewish graffiti in a bath-building
- Description:
- Marble panels in a threshold within the bath-building beside the extra-mural "Nymphaeum".
- Text:
- Incised on the top face; while a. may be complete on its stone, b. is certainly not, and must originally have extended onto flanking panels.
- Letters:
- Rough and uneven letters in an unprofessional hand, or pehaps several hands, probably quite late, 0.03-0.04; lunate Ε, Σ, and Ω except in the second hand of i, cursive Δ, and Μ in i, cursive Α in ii.
- Date:
- Third century A.D. or later (nomenclature).
- Findspot:
- Necropolis, North-east: cut on threshhold of building adjacent to "Extra-mural nymphaeum"
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1981)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds & Tannenbaum, Jews and Godfearers at Aphrodisias, appendix, 7.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds and Tannenbaum (1987).
- i
- a
- 1νικᾷ ἡ τύχη τῶν ὁ͂δε
- 2Εὐσεβίου γράμματα vac.
- b
- (Second hand: rather larger and inserted between the end of l. 1 and the right edge.)
- 1ΚΕ v.
- ii
- 1[νικᾷ ἡ τύχ]η τῶν ὁ῀δε vac.
- 2[·· ? ··] Ζηνᾶς vac.
- 3[·· ? ··]Νόννος vac.
- 4[·· ? ··]Θε[όδ]ωρ(ο)ς vac.
- 5[·· ? ··]Σαββάτιο[ς]
- 6[·· ? ··] Κάλλιστος v.
- i
- a
- 1ΝΙΚΑΗΤΥΧΗΤΩΝΟ͂ΔΕ
- 2ΕΥΣΕΒΙΟΥΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ
- b
- (Second hand: rather larger and inserted between the end of l. 1 and the right edge.)
- 1ΚΕ
- ii
- 1[·········]ΗΤΩΝΟ῀ΔΕ
- 2[ - - - ]ΖΗΝΑΣ
- 3[ - - - ]ΝΟΝΝΟΣ
- 4[ - - - ]ΘΕ[··]ΩΡΣ
- 5[ - - - ]ΣΑΒΒΑΤΙΟ[·]
- 6[ - - - ]ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΟΣ
<div
type="textpart_section"
n="i"
>
<div
type="textpart_fragment"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
νικᾷ
ἡ
τύχη
τῶν
ὁ͂δε
<lb
n="2"
/>
Εὐσεβίου
γράμματα
<space
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
</ab>
<div
type="textpart_fragment"
n="b"
>
</div>
<note>
Second hand: rather larger and inserted between the end of l. 1 and the right edge.
</note>
<ab>
</div>
<lb
/>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
κε
</orig>
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
</ab>
<div
type="textpart_section"
n="ii"
>
<ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
νικᾷ
ἡ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τύχ
</supplied>
η
τῶν
ὁ῀δε
<space
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
Ζηνᾶς
<space
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
Νόννος
<space
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Θε
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
όδ
</supplied>
ωρ
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
ο
</supplied>
<abbr>
</expan>
ς
</abbr>
<space
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
Σαββάτιο
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ς
</supplied>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
Κάλλιστος
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
</ab>
Apparatus
ii. l. 1 is restored from i. a. l. 1.
Translation:
i. The fortune triumphs of those here; writing of Eusebios
ii. [The fortune triumphs] of those here [·· ? ··] Zenas [·· ? ··] Nonnos [·· ? ··] Theodoros [·· ? ··] Sabbatios [·· ? ··] Kallistos
Commentary:
Some of the names (such as Sabbatios) seem to be Jewish or Christian, but others are not necessarily so.
Photographs:
- Stone (1968)
-
- Squeeze, i. a. (1981)
-
- Squeeze, i. b. (1981)
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