AN EARLY JEWISH BRONZE TABULA ANSATA

LATE ROMAN PERIOD TO BYZANTINE PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.

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AN EARLY JEWISH BRONZE TABULA ANSATA
LATE ROMAN PERIOD TO BYZANTINE PERIOD,
CIRCA 4TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.
The dedication plaque inscribed on one side with six lines of Greek reading, "I, Isâs, son of Samuel, having made a vow, and giving thanks, have set up [this] in honor of the Temple," perforated in one corner and in one side flange
3 9/16 in. (9 cm.) wide

來源

Geneva Collection of Ancient Jewish Art, collected 1960s-1980s.
Israeli Private Collection, acquired in the 1990s.

拍品專文

Isâs and Samuel are known Jewish names in the Late Roman and Byzantine Period. Isâs is an affectionate form of Isidoros. Jewish dedicatory plaques are known on mosaic floors and in stone (see nos. 2.9, 2.10 and 2.11 in Fine, Sacred Realm, The Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient World). Small scale dedications are rare. A bronze tablet excavated in the sea near Atlit, Israel is the only known close parallel (see pp. 116-122 in Ullman and Galili, Scripta Classica Israelica, 13).