Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 Haif 0008

Cave of Elijah, Sixth century CE. Room / Interior Space. Dedicatory.

 73.3 144.2

Cavities hewn into the rock between the first two lines on both sides of the inscription make the reading of its bottom part very fragmentary

Sixth century CE Coastal Plain Haifa Elijah's Cave

South-eastern wall.

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

 Initial Entry Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames Edited adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

ΙΟΑΝΑΝΟΣΚΑΙΟΝΙΑΚΗΣΗΘΗΝΟΜΑΣΟΕΜΑΟΣ ΜΟ ΒΗΘ ΗΛΙΟ

Ἰοανάνος καὶ Ὀνία κηκαὶ Σ μνησθῇ Νόμας ὁ Ἐμαός μο Βηθ Ἠλίος

Yohanan and Honi and [...] remembered Nomas of Emmaus [...] Beth (house!) [of] [...] Elio[s]..

The reconstruction of [μν]η<σ>θῇ and the reading ὁ Ἐμαός are very uncertain. In particular, if the person came from Emaus, he should have been designeted as ὁ Ἐμαεῦς. Also, even though the evidence from the NT (see Luke 24:13) is not far-removed from the spelling we find here, in the late Roman-Byzantine period Emmaus was known as Nicopolis. Nevertheless, if we consider that the inscription was probably jewish, this may explain the use of the old Semitic name, and the linguistic errors may derive from the fact that the person who executed it was not well versed in Greek.

Ἰοανάνος καὶ Ὀνία κηκαὶ Σ μνησθῇ Νόμας ὁ Ἐμαός μο Βηθ Ἠλίος

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