Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Golan. Ramsaniyye. Late Roman or Early Byzantine Period. Block. Dedication.

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Chi-rho Beginning of inscription, top left side of extant stone Palm tree Middle of stone 200 - 500 CE Golan Ramsaniyye33.036904983907725,35.79366555977286 west

Ramsaniyye, in a building in the west.

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 Creation adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value. Zev Radoren

ΚΥΡΙΕΠΡΟΣΔΕΞΕΤΗΝΠΡΟΣΦΟΡΑΝΤΟΥΛΑΜΠΡΟΒΑΛΒΙΩΝΟΣΤΩΕΞΙΔΙΩΝ ΚΑΙΚΟΠΟΥΕΚΤΙΣΕΝΤΟΥΑΓ ΤΩΠΟΥΚΑΙΚΥΡ ΕΒΩΗΘΙΜΑΞΙΜΟΥΟ ΚΟΔΟΜΟΥΤΟΥΚΑΙΓΡΑΨΑΝΤΟ

κύριε πρόσδεξε τὴν προσφορὰν τοῦ λαμπροτάτου Βαλβίωνος τῷ ἐξ ἰδίων καὶ κόπου ἔκτισεν τοῦ ἁγίου τώπου καὶ κύριε βωήθι Μαξιμου οἰκοδόμου τοῦ καὶ γράψαντος

Lord accept the offering of (the) illustrious Balbionus, who(?) at his own expense and toil made this holy(?) place. And Lord help Maximus the builder who also wrote this.

κύριε πρόσδεξε τὴν προσφορὰν τοῦ λαμπροτάτου Βαλβίωνος τῷ ἐξ ἰδίων καὶ κόπου ἔκτισεν τοῦ ἁγίου τώπου καὶ κύριε βωήθι Μαξιμου οἰκοδόμου τοῦ καὶ γράψαντος

Block with complete inscription.Gregg derives his reading from earlier and recent drawings of Dauphin, Schumacher, and Oliphant. The measurements are taken from Dauphin's drawing (1:10). Gregg also references the recovered stone, which is damaged along the right edge, with chipping widening towards the bottom. The stone features a chi-rho at the beginning of the transcription. In the middle of the stone, there is an encircled, stylized palm tree with the text wrapped around the figure. The epigraph contains formulae similar to many dedicatory inscriptions. The recovery of the stone permits the correction of earlier published drawings by Oliphant and Schumacher, though Oliphant saw the epigraph prior to the chipping of the right side. Problems of interpretation, however, remain. There are two grammatical irregularities: the use of the genitive where the accusative is expected after ἔκτισεν, and βοήθει with the genitive. The spelling τῶπου for τόπου is not unusual.

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