Bilingual Greek and Hebrew funerary inscription for a mother from her sons and daughter from Joppa (JOP0104)

Dublin Core

Title

Bilingual Greek and Hebrew funerary inscription for a mother from her sons and daughter from Joppa (JOP0104)

Description

Marble Greek and Hebrew funerary inscription for the mother of Abudemmus, Samuel and Zenon from Joppa, dated to the 3rd-6th c. CE (JOP0104)

Source

Joppa/Jaffa

Publisher

CIIP3: 2179

Format

Marble

Language

Greek
Hebrew

Identifier

JOP0104

Funerary inscription Item Type Metadata

Dimensions

H 29.5cm
W 34cm
D 5.5cm

Diplomatic

ΑΝΑΠΑΥΣΙΣΜΗΤΡΟΣ
ΑΒΟΥΔΕΜΜΟΥΚΑΙ
ΣΑΜΟΥΗΛΟΣΚΑΙΖΗ
ΝΩΝΟΣΚΑΙΤΟΥΤΕΝΟΥΣ
ΑΥΤΩΝΚΕΑΔΕΛΦΗΣ
ΑΥΤΩΝΚΟΧΧΑΘΙΩΝ
ΠΕΝΤΕ
{Hebrew}

Translation

Resting place of the mother
of Abudemmus and
Samuel and
Zenon and their family
and their sister
five [members] of [the] Kochathoi [family].
Peace Abudemus(?).

Diplomatic Constituted From

CIIP3

Translation Constituted From

CIIP3

Letters

3,5cm

Findspot

A rock-cut tomb south of Kibbutz Galuyot Street

Original Context (if known)

A rock-cut tomb south of Kibbutz Galuyot Street

Current Location (if known)

Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, inv. no. C 41658

Name 2

Samuel

Name 3

Zenon

Role 4

mother

Role 5

sister

Selected Bibliography

CIIP3=Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, volume III: South Coast: a multi-lingual corpus of
the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad, Ameling et. al. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2014. pp.45-46, no.2179

Citation

“Bilingual Greek and Hebrew funerary inscription for a mother from her sons and daughter from Joppa (JOP0104),” WIRE: Women in the Roman East Project, accessed April 24, 2024, https://wireproject.org/items/show/120.

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