Third Berenice Inscription
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.
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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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