Aramaic epitaph for Shappira from Jerusalem (JLM0007)
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Title
Aramaic epitaph for Shappira from Jerusalem (JLM0007)
Description
One-line epitaph in Aramaic for Shappira cut above a loculus from Jerusalem, dated to the 1st c. CE.
Source
Publisher
CIIP1: 357
Date
Language
Identifier
JLM0007
Funerary inscription Item Type Metadata
Edition
spr'
Translation
Shappira
Diplomatic Constituted From
CIIP1
Edition Constituted From
CIIP1
Translation Constituted From
CIIP1
Findspot
Burial cave below Deir es-Sineh in the Kidron Valley
Original Context (if known)
Carved above a loculus in one of the burial chambers.
Current Location (if known)
in-situ
Name 1
Notes
JLM005-JLM007 were all found in the same burial cave in the Kidron Valley.
Selected Bibliography
CIIP1=Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, volume I: Jerusalem: a multi-lingual corpus of the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad, Ameling et. al. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2014. pp.377, no.357.
Citation
“Aramaic epitaph for Shappira from Jerusalem (JLM0007),” WIRE: Women in the Roman East Project, accessed April 25, 2024, https://wireproject.org/items/show/440.