Third Berenice Inscription

56

The year 2 of Nero Claudius Caesar Drusius Germanicus Imperator on 6 Choiak:

It has been decided by the community [synagōgē] of Jews in Berenice that those donating towards the restoration of the synagogue building [synagōgē] be inscribed on a stele of Parian marble:

Zenion son of Zoilos archon 10 dr[achmae]
Isidoros son of Dositheos archon 10 dr.
Dositheos son of Ammonios archon 10 dr.
Pratis son of Jonathan archon 10 dr.
Karnedas son of Cornelius archon 10 dr.
Heracleides son of Heracleides archon 10 dr.
Thaliarchos son of Dositheos archon 10 dr.
Sosibios son of Jason archon 10 dr.
Pratomedes son of Socrates archon 10 dr.
Antigonos son of Straton archon 10 dr.
Kartisthenes son of Archias priest 10 dr.
Lysanias son of Lysanias 25 dr.
Zenodoros son of Theuphilos 28 dr.
Mar . . . [son of] 25 dr.
Alexander son of Euphranor 5 dr.
Isidora daughter of Serapion 5 dr.
Zosima daughter of Terpolios 5 dr.
Polon son of Dositheos 5 dr.
Translated by Lee I. Levine.

Notes

Words in brackets appear in the original translation.

Credits

Third Berenice Inscription, trans. Lee I. Levine, in Lee I. Levine, The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years, 2nd ed. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005), p. 103. Used with permission of the publisher.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.

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