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GEZE0003

Gazara (Gezer), 150 BCE - 70 CE. Boundary marker. Place marker (Boundary).
Transcription

ΑΛΚΙΟΥ תחמגזר

Translation

Of Alkaios. Boundary of Gezer

Diplomatic

[no diplomatic]

Terminus post quem:
Terminus ante quem:
Notes
This inscription was discovered during Clermont-Ganneau's second excavation of the tel on a vertical rock in Gazara. Gazara is located about midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, close to Modi'in. The inscription was engraved on two lines, the Greek above the Hebrew. Because he used a vertical slab, the engraver had room to put the inscription on two lines. (The horizontal boundary stones required him to fit both the Greek and Hebrew letters onto one line.) Though there are no spaces between the Hebrew letters, they have been divided into two words: תחום גזר, which translates as the boundary of Gezer. The inscription is part of a set of nine, one of which is undecipherable.

Languages

Greek, Hebrew

Dimensions

H: —; W: —; D: —

Date

150 BCE to 70 CE

Current location

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Bibliography

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Source of transcription

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Source of translation

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Other sources

  • Reich, Ronny. “The Boundary of Gezer: On the Jewish Settlement at Gezer in Hasmonean Times.” Eretz-Israel 18 (1985): 167–79. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23621156. page 169-170.
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