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JERU0572
Jerusalem, 3rd or 2nd century BCE. Stele. Confession.
Transcription Ὅρκος· Ἄρης αὐλητὴς τάδε· τοὺς στρατιώτας ἐπήγαγον ἐπὶ οἰκίαν τῶν θεῶν τούτων
καὶ οὐκ ἐφάμην
καὶ τοὺς ἱερεῖς μαστιγῶσαι παίειν ἤθελον καὶ οὐκ ἔλαθον, κολασθείς
ὑπὸ τῶν θεῶν τούτων
μου ἀπώλεσαν καὶ ἐμοὶ ἕλκος ἐνέβαλον ΚΑσαν καὶ ΤΑΑἔμπυον
ΤΗΕΠ |
Translation (The case of the) oath: Flute-player Ares (says) this: I led [(the) soldiers] to
the hou[se of] these [gods] and I refused (?) to/said I would not […] and I
wanted to flo[g] the priests and I did not escape detection, [?punished] by
these gods he[re:] they killed my […] and inflicted me with [?a festering wound]
and they […] and […] festering […] |
Diplomatic [no diplomatic] |
- Terminus post quem:
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Languages
Greek
Dimensions
H: .225 cm; W: .175 cm; D: .115 cm
Date
299 BCE to 100 BCE
Current location
Eretz Israel Museum, Kadman Pavilion of Numismatics, inv. MHA 162
Figures
No figures described.
Bibliography
Source of diplomatic
No bibliography available for diplomatic transcription.
Source of transcription
- ZoteroRicl, Marijana. “A Confession-Inscription from Jerusalem?” Scripta Classica Israelica 25 (2006): 51–56.
Source of translation
- ZoteroRicl, Marijana. “A Confession-Inscription from Jerusalem?” Scripta Classica Israelica 25 (2006): 51–56.
Other sources
- ZoteroApplebaum, Shimon. “A Fragment of a New Hellenistic Inscription from the Old City of Jersualem.” In Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period: Abraham Schalit Memorial Volume, 56–59. Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 1980.
- ZoteroSupplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Vol. 30, 1980.
- ZoteroLupu, Eran. “A New Look at Three Inscriptions from Jaffa, Jerusalem and Gaza.” Scripta Classica Israelica 22 (2002): 193–202.
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