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    The Theodotos inscription is the earliest known inscription from a synagogue. It was found in December 1913 by Raymond Weill in Wadi Hilweh (known as...
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    Umm el-Umdan, and the small synagogue at the top of Masada. The Theodotos inscription from Jerusalem is usually considered to have come from a synagogue...
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    BCE or 1st century CE – "Theodotus synagogue", based only on the Theodotos Inscription mentioning a synagogue and a hostel Herodium – contested; inside...
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  • Theodotus (redirect from Theodotos)
    Caesarea, third-century Christian martyr Theodote (disambiguation) Theodotos inscription Fedot, Russian form Aurelius Theodotus, a Roman general of emperor...
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    commonly used in English, with its earliest mention in the 1st century Theodotos inscription in Jerusalem. Ashkenazi Jews have traditionally used the Yiddish...
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  • Theodotos inscription, donor inscription of a Jerusalem synagogue of the 1st century AD (Israel Museum)....
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    including a public building, possibly an ancient synagogue, alongside an inscription dedicated to the Roman emperor Septimius Severus and his family commissioned...
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  • Thumbnail for Jericho synagogue
    contains an Aramaic inscription presenting thanks to the synagogue donors, and a well-preserved central medallion with the inscription "Shalom al Israel"...
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    Ein Gedi synagogue (category Aramaic inscriptions)
    Azariah – peace upon Israel." An inscription dedicated to the donors for the synagogue's repair. A long inscription referring to the rules of conduct...
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    funeral inscription from ancient Stobi in present-day North Macedonia, near Gradsko about 90 km to the southeast of Gorno Sonje. The inscription in ancient...
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  • Thumbnail for Ostia Synagogue
    aedicula, to serve as a Torah Ark, was added in the 4th century AD. A donor inscription implies that it replaced an earlier wooden platform donated in the 2nd...
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  • Thumbnail for Kfar Bar'am synagogue
    what to make of them. They were evidently neither Greek nor Roman. The inscription, if authentic, obviously marks both structures as of Jewish origin ;...
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  • Thumbnail for Dura-Europos synagogue
    its survival. The last phase of construction was dated by an Aramaic inscription to 244 CE, making it one of the oldest synagogues in the world. It was...
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  • Nineteen fragmentary inscriptions, some of which were in Greek, were etched into the marble of the building. From these dedicatory inscriptions the impression...
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  • Thumbnail for Peki'in Synagogue
    uncovered an 1,800-year-old limestone capital. Engraved on it are two Hebrew inscriptions dating to the Roman period. The column was found upside down in the building's...
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    holding the celestial sphere and a whip.[citation needed] The large inscription from the third panel mention names are of donors and consists of nine...
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    hydria, the inscription translates to "Year 9; Sotion son of Kleon of Delphi, Member of the Sacred Embassy announcing the Soteria; by Theodotos, agorastes"...
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  • Thumbnail for Deir Aziz synagogue
    found engraved on a stone. One of the synagogue's windows bears a Greek inscription, ΑΖΙΖΟ, suggesting a connection between the Arab name of the ruin, Deir...
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  • Thumbnail for Kfar Devora
    the site, remains of a Jewish settlement, synagogue, a Beth midrash, 5 inscriptions in Aramaic, 1 in Greek, and one in Hebrew were discovered, which was...
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  • panel of the mosaic floor shows King David, who is named in a Hebrew inscription reading "David" (דויד), while sitting and playing a lyre with a number...
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  • Thumbnail for Sardis Synagogue
    Roman empire. Along with the discovery of the godfearers/theosebeis inscription from Aphrodisias, it provides indisputable evidence for the continued...
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  • conquered" Theodore/Theodora: (Greek) "gift of God" Theodosius/Theodosia, Theodotos/Theodotē and Dositheus/Dosithea: (Greek) "God-given" Theodotus: (Greek):...
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    his death in a car accident in 1926 (which is commemorated by a Latin inscription carved onto one of the synagogue's columns), and was continued by Virgilio...
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    against Cleopatra to join Pompey's forces instead. In a scheme devised by Theodotos, Pompey arrived by ship near Pelousion after being invited by written...
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  • "Apollo". Also common were names formed from the simple theos "god", such as Theodotos/Theodora. All the major gods except the god of war, Ares, and gods associated...
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    Maoz Haim Synagogue (category Byzantine Empire-related inscriptions)
    Hebrew word in the entire building was Shalom; the remainder of the inscriptions were in Greek. Behind the bima there was an area, possibly a geniza,...
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  • Thumbnail for Delos Synagogue
    building as a synagogue by Plassart was based in large part on a dedicatory inscription referring to "Theos Hypsistos", or "God Most High", sometimes used as...
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    the earlier building. The year of its construction is known from the inscription over the main door: "According to the counting of four hundred and ninety-four...
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  • originally from Kayseri in Cappadocia. Sofoklis Avraam Choudaverdoglou-Theodotos – (1872–1956) an eminent Greek scholar, historian, stenographer and a...
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    in 1901 and bishop of Carcassonne under the title "His Greatness Tau Theodotos" in 1903. However, he distanced himself from the Gnostic Church soon afterwards...
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