Aramaic funerary inscription mentioning a daughter (JOP0115)
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Title
Aramaic funerary inscription mentioning a daughter (JOP0115)
Description
Fragmentary marble plaque with Aramaic funerary inscription including a reference to a daughter of the house of [unknown], from Joppa/Jaffa, dated to 5th-6th c. CE (JOP0115)
Source
Publisher
CIIP3: 2247
Date
Format
Marble
Language
Identifier
JOP0115
Funerary inscription Item Type Metadata
Dimensions
H 12cm
W 17cm
D 1.5cm
W 17cm
D 1.5cm
Translation
...rian? Cyra daughter of the house of...
Translation Constituted From
CIIP3
Description
Squared marble plaque broken on the right and at the bottom, with three lines of an Aramaic inscription, and some remains of red paint within the inscribed letters
Letters
1.5-2.5cm
Findspot
Jaffa necropolis
Current Location (if known)
Old Jaffa Museum of Antiquities, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, IAA inv. no. 1979-505
Name 1
Selected Bibliography
CIIP3=Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, volume III: South Coast: a multi-lingual corpus of
the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad, Ameling et. al. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2014. pp.127-128, no.2247.
the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad, Ameling et. al. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2014. pp.127-128, no.2247.
Citation
“Aramaic funerary inscription mentioning a daughter (JOP0115),” WIRE: Women in the Roman East Project, accessed October 4, 2024, https://www.wireproject.org/items/show/182.