Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine

Title	ID	Language(s)	Date	Transcription	Translation
Capernaum, 117-138 CE. Milestone.	cape0001	Latin	Between 117 CE and 138 CE	ImperatorCaesar diviTraiani ParthiciFilius divi Nervae Nepos Traianus Hadrianus Augustus	The Emperor Caesar, son of the divine Trajan who conquered the Parthians, grandson of the divine Nerva, Trajan Hadrian Augustus.
Capernaum, third century CE. Inscription on Synagogue Column. Dedicatory.	cape0002	Greek	Between 200 CE and 300 CE	Ἡρώδης Μοκίμου καὶ Ἰοῦστοςυἱὸς ἅμα τοῖςτέκνοις ἔκτισαντὸν κίονα	Herod son of Mo[ki]/mos (or: Monimos) and Justus / his son together with the / children erec/ted / the column
Capernaum, 5th century CE. Column. Dedicatory.	cape0003	Aramaic, Hebrew	Between 400 CE and 500 CE	חלפי בר זבידה בר יוחנן עבד הדן עמודה תי לה ברכתה	Alphaeus the son of Zebidah the son of John made this column. May it be for him a blessing.
Galilee. Carmiel, 500 CE - 600 CE. Mosaic on church floor. Dedication.	carm0001	Greek	Between 500 CE and 600 CE	Ἐκτίσθη ἡ ἁγία ἐκλησία ἔτους ἐνενικοστοῦ φ Ἰνδκτιῶνος ε ἐπι τοῦ θεοφιληστάτου ἐπισκόπου ἡμῶν Στεφάνου καί θεοσεβεστάτου θεωθεοῦ	The Holy Church was built in the year 590, on Indiction 5, in the time of our bishop, beloved of god, Stefanos,... reverer of God...
Galilee. Carmiel, 500 CE - 600 CE. Mosaic on church floor. Funerary.	carm0002	Greek	Between 500 CE and 600 CE	Κύριε ὁ θεός ἀνάπαυσον τούς δούλους σου Ἰώκλητον ΝΒ	Lord God, lay down your servants Iokletos... (on their resting place)
Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic on church floor. Funerary.	carm0003	Greek	Between 450 CE and 550 CE	Μνησθῶσιν Ζώσυς Καί Εἴμερις	Be remembered Zosys and Imeris
Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic on church floor. Funerary.	carm0004	Greek	Between 450 CE and 550 CE	Κύριε μνήστηθι Μαξίμουτοῦ πρεσβυτέρου	Lord Remember Maximos the Priest
Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic on church floor. Funerary.	carm0005	Greek	Between 450 CE and 550 CE	Κύριε μνήστηθι τοῦ δούλου σου Προκοπίου τοῦ πρεσβυτέρου	Lord Remember Your servant Procopios the Priest
Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic on church floor. Dedication.	carm0006	Greek	Between 450 CE and 550 CE	Θεόδωρος ὑποδιάκων γράμμα	Theodorus Subdeacom Gramma
Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic on church floor. Dedication.	carm0007	Greek	Between 450 CE and 550 CE	Βαραχέος διάκων γράμματος τοἥμυσι	Baracheos Deacon Half gramma
Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic on church floor. Dedication.	carm0008	Greek	Between 450 CE and 550 CE	Ἄππας διάκων γράμμα	Appas Deacon Gramma
Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic on church floor. Funerary.	carm0009	Greek	Between 450 CE and 550 CE	Μνήσθῶσιν Λεόντις κέ Γλυκέρις κέ Φιρμῖνος κέ Σευῆρος	Be remembered Leontis and Glykeris and Firminos and Seviros
Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic on church floor. Dedication.	carm0010	Greek	Between 450 CE and 550 CE	Ἐπιφάνις ὑποδιάκων γράμμα	Epiphanis Subdeacon Gramma
Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic floor. Dedicatory.	carm0011	Greek	Between 450 CE and 550 CE	Οἰκονόομος τῆς ἐκκλησίας	...Economist of the church
Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic on church floor. Dedication.	carm0012	Greek	Between 450 CE and 550 CE	Κονο Γράμμα	... Kono Gramma
Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic on church floor. Funerary(?).	carm0013	Greek	Between 450 CE and 550 CE	Ἀναγνώστης	Reader
Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic on church floor. Dedication.	carm0014	Greek	Between 450 CE and 550 CE	Μαξίμον γράμμα	[Max]imos Gramma
Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic on church floor. Dedication.	carm0015	Greek	Between 450 CE and 550 CE	Μνίνου γράμμα	Mninos Gramma
Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic on church floor. Funerary(?).	carm0016	Greek	Between 450 CE and 550 CE	ος ἀρχηδιάκων	...os Archdeacon
Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic on church floor. Funerary(?).	carm0017	Greek	Between 450 CE and 550 CE	Ἀφαίου	... Aphaeos
Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic on church floor. Funerary(?).	carm0018	Greek	Between 450 CE and 550 CE	Ἀσδομνίνου	...Asdomninos
Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic on church floor. Funerary(?).	carm0019	Greek	Between 450 CE and 550 CE	Θεόδωρος Κληματήου	(Theo)doros Son of Klemateos
Galilee. Carmiel, Fifth or sixth century CE. Mosaic on church floor. Funerary(?).	carm0020	Greek	Between 450 CE and 550 CE	Καί Θεοδώρος	And Theodorus
Carmiel, 6th Century CE. Mosaic. Prayer.	carm0021	Greek	Between 500 CE and 600 CE	ΜνησθῇἈβουδεμος διάκονος.	Remember the deacon Aboudemos.
Cathisma, First half of the 8th century CE. Mosaic. Dedicatory.	cath0001	Greek	Between 700 CE and 750 CE	Βασιλίου Προνοίᾳ καὶ σπουδῇ Ἰωάννου ἐγκλειστοῦ	Of Basilios; by the provision and haste of John the recluse(?)...
Chorazin, 5th-6th centuries CE. Chair.	chor0001	Hebrew, Aramaic	Between 400 CE and 600 CE	דכיר לטב בר ישמעלדעבד הדן סטוהודרגוה מפעללה יהילה חולק עם צדיקיה	Remember for good Yudan the son of Ishmael who made this stvh and its steps; may he take part with the pious
Choiba, 5th century CE. Mosaic. Dedicatory.	choz0001	Greek	Between 420 CE and 480 CE	Ὑπὲρ σωτηρίας καὶ ἀναλήμψεως τῶν καρποφορησάντων καὶ καρποφορούντων ὦν Κύριος γινώσκει τὰ ὀνόματα.	For the salvation and deliverance of the past benefactors and the present benefactors whose names the Lord knows.
Coastal Plain, (Probably Caesarea), Mid-first century CE. Lead weight.	coas0001		Between 41 CE and 64 CE	[no transcription]	Demetrius, son of Dem[…]s. [Year…] of Tiberius Claudius Caesar [Augustus], […] son of [ikos] being agoranomos.
Golan Heights. Dabbura, Late Roman period. Architrave. Dedicatory.	dabb0001	Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic	Between 200 CE and 337 CE	אלעזר בר רבה עבד עמודיה דעל מן Ῥούστικος ἔκτισεν כפתה ופצ ימיה	El'azar the son of...made the columns above the arches and beams … Rusticus built (it).
Golan Heights. Dabbura, Late Roman period. Lintel. Text unknown.	dabb0002	Aramaic, Hebrew	Between 200 CE and 337 CE	בר יודה	...son of Yudah
Golan Heights. Dabbura, Late Roman period. Basalt lintel. Text unknown.	dabb0003	Aramaic, Hebrew	Between 200 CE and 337 CE	חיננה ברכתה	...[H]inenna... [May he (or they)] be blessed.
Golan Heights. Dabbura. 200 CE - 299 CE. Lintel. Dedicatory.	dabb0004	Hebrew, Aramaic	Between 200 CE and 299 CE	עבדו בית תהי לה ברכתה	They made the house of... May he [it?] be blessed
Golan Heights. Dabbura, Late Roman period. Lintel. Dedicatory.	dabb0005	Hebrew, Aramaic	Between 200 CE and 337 CE	עבד תרעה	...made the gate
Golan Heights. Dabbura, 150 CE - 250 CE. Lintel. Dedicatory.	dabb0006	Hebrew	Between 150 CE and 250 CE	זה בית מדרשו שהלרבי אליעזר הקפר	This is the Beth Midrash (=School) of the Rabbi Eli'ezer ha-Qappar.
Golan Heights. Dabiyye, Roman or Byzantine Period. Slab. Funerary (Epitaph).	dabi0001	Greek	Between 100 CE and 699 CE	Ἰησοῦς Σειλου ἐτῶν ξ´	Jesus (son of) Seilas. Sixty years old.
Golan Heights. Deir Mfadal, Roman or Byzantine Period. Tombstone. Epitaph.	deir0001	Greek	Between 1 CE and 699 CE	θάρσει Δομετιανέ ἐτῶν ο	Be of good courage, Dometianos(?)! Fifty years old.
Deir el-Qal'a, 544-545 CE. Mosaic. Prayer.	dqal0001	Greek	Between 544 CE and 545 CE	+ Εὐλογιτὸς Κύριος ὁ Θεός. Ἐπὶ τῆς εὐσεβοῦς βασιλείας Ἰουστινιανοῦ ἔτους ιη´ καὶ Ἀπολλουνίου ἁγιωτάτου ἐπισκόπου καὶ Παύλου τοῦ ὁσιωτάτου ἀρχιμανδρίτου, ἔτους μ´ ἐπὶ τῆς ἡγουμενίας αὐτοῦ, ἐτελιώθη ὁ τόπος ἐπὶ τῆς η´ ἰνδικτιῶνος. Κύριε ἐλέησον.	The Lord God be blessed. In the days of the pious reign of Justinian, 18th year, and of the most holy bishop Apollonius, and the most saintly archimandrite Paul, in the 40th year of his abbacy, this place was brought to completion, in the 8th indiction. Lord, have pity.
Deir Qrukh, Byzantine. Lintel. Invocation.	dqru0001	Greek	Between 324 CE and 638 CE	+ Ὁ Θεὸς τοῦ ἁγίου Γρηγορίου, σῶσονσο̃σον καὶ ἐλέησον τοὺς ἐλπίζοντας επί+σε, ἀμήν. +	God of Saint Gregory, save and have mercy on those who hope in you. Amen.
Deir e-Scheir, 55-97 CE. Dedicatory.	dsch0001	Greek	Between 55 CE and 97 CE	Ἐπὶ βασιλέως μεγάλου Μάρκου Ιὀυλίου Ἀγρίππα ἔτους Διομήδης Χάρητος, ἔπαρχος σπείρης Αὐγούστης καὶ στρατηγ ὸς νομάδων ης καὶ Χαλκίδος	Under the great king Marcus Julius Agrippa, in the year […] Diomedes, son of Chares, prefect […] of cohors Augusta and strategos of the nomads, […] and of Chalcis […]
Deir e-Scheir, 53-97 CE. Dedicatory.	dsch0002	Greek	Between 53 CE and 97 CE	Διομήδης Χάρητος ἔπαρχος βασιλέως μεγάλου Ἀγρίππα ἀπὸ θεμελίων ἀνήγειρεν.	Diomedes, son of Chares, prefect of the great king Agrippa, raised this from its foundations.
Avdat, First century CE. Stone. Dedicatory.	eavd0001	Aramaic, Hebrew	Between 1 CE and 100 CE	דכיר בטב קרא קדם עבדת אלהא ודכירמן ד הקים גרמאלהי בר תיצאלהי צלם לקבל עבדת אלהאפיפעל לא פדא ולא אתרא פכן הנא יבענא אלמותו לאאבעה פכן הנא ארד גרחו לא ירדנאגרמאלהי כתב בידה	May he who reads (?) be remembered in good (memory) before Obodas the god, and may there be remembered(who)ever... Garm'alahi son of Taym'alahi [set up] a statue before Obodas the god.And he acts neither for benefit nor for favour. And if death claim(s) us let me notbe claimed. And if affliction seeks, let it not seek us.Garm'alahi wrote this with his own hand.
Golan Heights. Ed-Dahshe, Byzantine period. Lintel. Invocation.	edda0001	Greek	Between 324 CE and 638 CE	+ Κύριε μὴ παρίδῃς ἡμᾶς +	Lord, do not forsake us!
Eastern Galilee, 429/430 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).	egal0001	Greek	Between 429 CE and 430 CE	Ἰησοῦς + Χριστός Α + Ω Βαρσίμας υἱὸς Μαξίμου ἐτῶν κα ἐτούς αλυ +	Jesus Christ. Alpha-omega. Barsimas son of Maximus; aged 21 years, in the year 431.
Tiberias, Second to third century CE. Sarcophagus. Funerary (Epitaph)	egal0002	Greek	Between 100 CE and 299 CE	ἸουλιανόςΚρίσπουζήσας ἔτη ιη	Julianus (son) of Crispus, who lived 18 years
Khirbet Ashaf, Third to fourth century CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).	egal0003	Greek	Between 200 CE and 399 CE	Θάρσι Μαροώνη οὐδείςἀθάνατος	[Be of good courage], Maron, no one is immortal
'Ein 'Arrub, 4th Century CE to 7th Century CE. Mosaic. Funerary.	eina0001	Greek	Between 320 CE and 640 CE	Ἅγιος Πλήσιππος Καρποφώρου καθὼς Κύριος Ἰωάννης ΖαχαρίαςἸωάννης Ἀββὰ συνέβη Κύριον Ἰωάννην Κύριοςἐτελεύ τά τελέσας ρʹ τὼν ἐτέων.	Saint Plesippos, son of Karpophoros, just as Saint John, the son of Zacharias (John the Abba agreed with Saint John), the Saint died, having completed 100 years.
Ein Arrub, Unknown. Tooth. Unknown Text.	eina0002		Unknown	NZ	[no translation]
'Ein Fattir, 476-531 CE. Mosaic. Dedicatory.	einf0001	Greek	Between 461 CE and 536 CE	Ἐπὶ τοῦ θεοσεβεστάτου καὶ ὁσιωτάτου ἡμῶν ἐπισκόπου Ἀναστασίου ἀνενεώθη τὸ πᾶν ἔργον τῆς ἁγιωτάτης ἐκκλησίας ὑπὲρ σωτηρίας καὶ μακροημερεύεσος τῶν καρποφορησάντων ἐψηφώθη μηνὶ Μαρτίου ἰνδικτιῶνος ιδʹ ψηφοθεσία Κλαυδιανοῦ καὶ Ἰμαννουελ ιεʹ μηνὸς Μαρτίου.	In the time of our most God-fearing and pious bishop Anastasios all of the most holy church was restored for the salvation and longevity of the benefactors, and it was paved in the month of March, indiction 14, by the mosaicists Claudian and Emmanuel (15 March?).
'Ein Fattir, Late 5th Century. Mosaic. Invocation.	einf0002	Greek	Between 460 CE and 536 CE	Χριστὲ βοήθει Ἰωάννου διακόνου.	Christ, help John the deacon.
Ein-Gedi, Byzantine. Mosaic Floor. Dedicatory.	eing0001	Hebrew	Between 324 CE and 638 CE	דכירין לטב כל בני קרתה דיהב גרמה ותקין כנישתה דכרי לט יונתן חזן דיהב גרמיה בתקינה דכנישתה שלם	Remembered for good, all the people (members) of the community who gave of themselves and repaired the synagogue. Rembered for good Jonathan (the) hazan who gave of himself in the repair of the synagogue. Peace.

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