Inscriptions from Israel and Palestine
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Scythopolis-Beth Shean, 500-516 CE. Block. Dedicatory.
Transcription

+ Ἐκ δωρεᾶς Φλαουίου Ἀναστασίου αὐτοκράτορος Αὐγούστου ἠ βασιλικὴμετὰ τῆς στέγης καὶ τῆς κεραμώσεως ἐγένετο διὰ Ϲαλλουστίουκαὶ Ϲιλουανοῦ σχολαστικῶν ἀδελφῶνπαίδων Ἀρσενίου σχολαστικοῦ Ϲκυθοπολιτῶνἐν ἰνδικτιῶνι θ ἐν χρόνοις Ἐντριχίου μεγαλοπρεπεστάτου ἄρχοντος

Translation

From a grant of the emperor Flavius Anastasius Augustus the basilica was built, together with the roof and the roof-tiles, through the brothers Sallustius and Silvanus, Scythopolitan lawyers, sons of Arsenius the lawyer, in the 9th indiction, at the time of the most magnificent governor Entrichius.

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Languages

Greek

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Date

500 CE to 516 CE

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Bibliography

Source of diplomatic

  • Di Segni, Leah. “New Epigraphical Discoveries at Scythopolis and in Other Sites of Late-Antique Palestine.” In Atti Del XI. Congresso Internazionale Di Epigrafia Greca e Latina, Roma, 18–24 Settembre 1997, 2:625–42. Roma, 1999.
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Source of transcription

  • Di Segni, Leah. “New Epigraphical Discoveries at Scythopolis and in Other Sites of Late-Antique Palestine.” In Atti Del XI. Congresso Internazionale Di Epigrafia Greca e Latina, Roma, 18–24 Settembre 1997, 2:625–42. Roma, 1999.
    Zotero

Source of translation

  • Di Segni, Leah. “New Epigraphical Discoveries at Scythopolis and in Other Sites of Late-Antique Palestine.” In Atti Del XI. Congresso Internazionale Di Epigrafia Greca e Latina, Roma, 18–24 Settembre 1997, 2:625–42. Roma, 1999.
    Zotero
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