Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Narr 0010

Narran, 6th century CE. Mosaic. Dedicatory.

Black tesserae

Two menorahs Below the inscription 6th century CE Golan Narran33.045278,35.688611 Synagogue Nave

Panel three of the mosaic carpet, to the left of narr0009

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דכיר לטב מרובר כריסחולקהון בהדן אתרה קדישה אמן

Remembered for good Maru[...] Son of Cris[... and his son] Their portion is in th[is holy place. Amen.]

"The name here is probably Marutha, as in the previous inscription, and so perhaps the same person. Avi-Yonah suggested that the father’s name, which begins with -כריס, was “Crispa,” a name otherwise unattested in Jewish inscriptions. The name “Crispus,” which appears in a Greek dedicatory inscription in the synagogue at Tiberias, and “Crispinus” are perhaps just as likely. In any case, we apparently have a Latin name here …"

דכיר לטב מרו בר כריס חולקהון בהדן אתרה קדישה אמן

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