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Scythopolis-Beth Shean, 524-525 CE. Slab. Dedicatory.
Transcription

+ Ἐκ τῖς δοθείησις θείας φιλοτιμίας κατʼαι αἴτισιν Φλαουίου Ἀρσενίου τοῦ ἐνδοξοτάτου καὶ τὸ ἔργον τοῦ τείχους ἀνενεώθη ἐν χρόνοις Φλαουίου Ἀναστασίου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου ἄρχοντος ἐν ἰνδικτιῶνι γ´.

Translation

With a grant made by the imperial liberality at the request of the gloriosissimus Flavius Arsenius, the whole fabric of the city-wall was renovated, in the time of Flavius Anastasius, clarissimus governor, in the 3rd indiction.

Diplomatic

+ΕΚΤΙϹΔΟΘΗϹΙϹΘΕΙΑϹΦΙΛΟΤΙ ΜΙΑϹΚΑΙΑΙΤΙϹΙΝΦΛϛ∙ΑΡϹΕΝΙΟΥ ΤΟΥΕΝΔΟΞΚΑΙΤΟΕΡΓ)ΤΟΥΤΙΧΟ ΥϹΑΝΑΙΝΕWΘΗΝΕΝΧΡΦΛϛΑΝΑϹ ΤΑϹΙΟΥΤΟΥΛΑΜΠΡΑΡΧΟΝ ΤΟϹΕΝΔΙΚΤΓ

Terminus post quem:
Terminus ante quem:
Notes
Relates to the renovation of the city wall. Same inscription found on bshe0012. The spelling on this slab is more vulgar than on bshe0012.

Languages

Greek

Dimensions

H: 40 cm; W: 66 cm; D: —

Date

524 CE to 525 CE

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Bibliography

Source of diplomatic

  • Di Segni, Leah. “Dated Greek Inscriptions from Palestine from the Roman and Byzantine Periods.” PhD Dissertation, Hebrew University, 1997. (IIP-563).
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Source of transcription

  • Di Segni, Leah. “Dated Greek Inscriptions from Palestine from the Roman and Byzantine Periods.” PhD Dissertation, Hebrew University, 1997. (IIP-563).
    Zotero

Source of translation

  • Di Segni, Leah. “Dated Greek Inscriptions from Palestine from the Roman and Byzantine Periods.” PhD Dissertation, Hebrew University, 1997. (IIP-563).
    Zotero

Other sources

  • Lifshitz, Baruch. “The Ancient Synagogue of Hamat-Tiberias, its Floor and Inscriptions.” In Studies in the History of the Jewish People and the Land of Israel, edited by B. Oded, U. Rappaport, A. Shochat, and J. Shatzmiller, 3:99–109. Haifa: University of Haifa, 1974.
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  • Starr, Joshua. “The Byzantine Inscriptions of Bethshan-Scythopolis.” The American Journal of Philology 58, no. 1 (1937): 83–89. http://www.jstor.org/stable/290163.
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