New Evidence for ‘Godfearers’ in Asian Bosporos

 
PIIS032103910015302-5-1
DOI10.31857/S032103910015302-5
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Affiliation: Saint Petersburg State University
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
Affiliation: Instituto of Archaeology RAS
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
Journal nameVestnik drevnei istorii
EditionVolume 81 Issue 4
Pages922-937
Abstract

The article publishes an inscription on a marble stele reused in the staircase of a private house in the stanitsa of Taman. The house is located directly on the territory of the archaeological site that was used for a long time for the extraction of building stone, which makes it possible to attribute the stele to the ancient Hermonassa with a very high degree of reliability. The inscription is a manumission; it is the first document of this genre found in the territory of Hermonassa. The main part of the text has been destroyed, but the dating (392 of the Bosporan era, i.e. 95/96 AD, the reign of Sauromates I), and the last line, where θεοβῶν is clearly read, have partly survived. Together with the manumission found in 2007 by A.I. Aibabin (the article also offers a new reading of the initial part of that document), and CIRB 71 (both inscriptions come from Panticapaeum), we now have three documents irrefutably proving that Jewish communities, which included Godfearers (quasi-proselytes), existed in the territory of the Bosporan kingdom in the first century AD.

KeywordsGreek epigraphy of Bosporus, Hermonassa, manumission inscriptions, Jews and Godfearers
AcknowledgmentMinistry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, project no. 075-15-2020-786
Received14.12.2021
Publication date14.12.2021
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Fig.2. Stelt KL-2491 (Рис._2._КЛ-2491..JPG, 524 Kb) [Download]

Fig 1b. Inscription (drawing) (Рис._1б._Надпись_на_стеле._Прорисовка_В.Н._Чхаидзе.jpg, 3,998 Kb) [Download]

Fig. 1a. Stele built into the staircase. (Рис._1а._Стела,_вмонтированная_в_лестницу._Фото_В.Н._Чхаидзе.JPG, 1,744 Kb) [Download]

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