8.267. Graffiti representing menoroth
- Description:
- A marble block, perhaps part of a door post which has been cut down for re-use (H. c. 0.43 × W. 1.29 × D. 0.41).
- Text:
- Graffiti incised on the front face.
- Letters:
- Irregular and not closely dateable, av. 0.01; squared Ω.
- Date:
- Possibly no earlier than last quarter of fourth century (if indiction on l. 3), but very uncertain.
- Findspot:
- Found with other re-used material in the theatre, apparently part of the rubble with which the cavea was filled in the seventh century
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lying east of theatre (1980)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition (date?).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds & Tannenbaum, Jews and Godfearers at Aphrodisias, appendix, 2.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds and Tannenbaum (1987).
- 1·Υ̣ v. Ω̣Ρ̣Α̣ τῷ οἴκῳ
- 2τούτῳ
- 3[·]ΝΔ̣Ι
- 3a[·· ? ··
- 1·· ···ΤΩΟΙΚΩ
- 2ΤΟΥΤΩ
- 3[·]Ν·Ι
- 3a[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="illegible"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
υ
</unclear>
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ωρα
</unclear>
τῷ
οἴκῳ
<lb
n="2"
/>
τούτῳ
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
Ν
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
Δ
</unclear>
Ι
</orig>
<lb
n="3a"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="line"
dim="bottom"
/>
</ab>
Apparatus
l. 1, just possibly a Φ at the start of this line.
l. 3, possibly from [ἰ]νδι[κτιών, but a date is not particularly relevant here, so that a verb (?ἐ]νδι[ατᾶται]) might be considered more probable.
Translation:
[·· ? ··] this house [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
[?protect] ... / [blessing on] ... / [joy on] ...
...
Photographs:
- Text (1976)
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- Monument (1980)
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