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III. A. I. Ammonitis.
5-
On the drums of columns of the temple on the Akropolis. The letters were carved
on the tops of these drums and therefore not visible when the columns were standing
in their entirety. A is on the fourth, B on the fifth drum of the fallen high column,
the drums of which lie. now as they fell. C is on a drum which has been taken down
from the temple and forms now part of a wall; D is on a drum lying near C, to the
north of it. A measures 41 X 34 (maximum width, 1. 1) cm.; B is 30 cm. wide (lower
line); C is 51cm. long; D measures 23x37 (maximum width 1. 1) cm. The letters
are 10—12 cm. high. — Copy of the author.
De Saulcy, Voyage en Terre Sainte, I, p. 246. — Conder,
The Survey of Eastern Palestine, pp. 31, sq.
The name Δωσεος is an ab-
breviation of Δωσι'3εος, just as, for
instance, Nathan for Nathanael,
and the like, and in Arabic Wahb for
Wahballah or Wahb’el. Whether
in C a shorter form Δώσε was in-
tended, is not certain. There never
were any other letters but Δώσε
on this drum. Either the name
was not completed, or Δώσε was
the hypocoristic form by which the
man usually was called. Deminu-
tives ending' in -e were common
in Aramaic dialects, and so they
are now in Abyssinia; on the other
hand, Greek names are very often used in Syriac in their vocative form, cf. Paule,
Petre etc., the forms which were most frequently heard.
Dose(os) may have been the name of the man who cut or furnished these column-
drums. It was more convenient for settling the accounts to have these drums labelled,
but of course it would have been very ugly if the letters had shown on the outside of
columns. For a similar purpose usually stone-cutters’ marks, consisting of a letter or
a symbol, were carved on the stones in some inconspicuous place and not so deeply
as the letters on these drums. On the other hand, there may have been, as Dr. Prentice
suggests, a religious reason for carving’ the name here. When the column was in
place, the name was incorporated in the column. The donor or the carver may have
thought to derive a certain benefit from that: for “his name,” i. e. according to a well
know superstition “his being,” was in the temple building, and the god would know of it.
Ill. 6. — Scale—I : io.
6.
Fragment, not in situ. On a stone in the back wall of a native house. This
house is a few minutes walk from the mosque. Leaving the mosque, you turn to the
right, then to left and again to the right. I had to copy this inscription lying on the
ground, among heaps of various description; the light came in through a small door
III. A. I. Ammonitis.
5-
On the drums of columns of the temple on the Akropolis. The letters were carved
on the tops of these drums and therefore not visible when the columns were standing
in their entirety. A is on the fourth, B on the fifth drum of the fallen high column,
the drums of which lie. now as they fell. C is on a drum which has been taken down
from the temple and forms now part of a wall; D is on a drum lying near C, to the
north of it. A measures 41 X 34 (maximum width, 1. 1) cm.; B is 30 cm. wide (lower
line); C is 51cm. long; D measures 23x37 (maximum width 1. 1) cm. The letters
are 10—12 cm. high. — Copy of the author.
De Saulcy, Voyage en Terre Sainte, I, p. 246. — Conder,
The Survey of Eastern Palestine, pp. 31, sq.
The name Δωσεος is an ab-
breviation of Δωσι'3εος, just as, for
instance, Nathan for Nathanael,
and the like, and in Arabic Wahb for
Wahballah or Wahb’el. Whether
in C a shorter form Δώσε was in-
tended, is not certain. There never
were any other letters but Δώσε
on this drum. Either the name
was not completed, or Δώσε was
the hypocoristic form by which the
man usually was called. Deminu-
tives ending' in -e were common
in Aramaic dialects, and so they
are now in Abyssinia; on the other
hand, Greek names are very often used in Syriac in their vocative form, cf. Paule,
Petre etc., the forms which were most frequently heard.
Dose(os) may have been the name of the man who cut or furnished these column-
drums. It was more convenient for settling the accounts to have these drums labelled,
but of course it would have been very ugly if the letters had shown on the outside of
columns. For a similar purpose usually stone-cutters’ marks, consisting of a letter or
a symbol, were carved on the stones in some inconspicuous place and not so deeply
as the letters on these drums. On the other hand, there may have been, as Dr. Prentice
suggests, a religious reason for carving’ the name here. When the column was in
place, the name was incorporated in the column. The donor or the carver may have
thought to derive a certain benefit from that: for “his name,” i. e. according to a well
know superstition “his being,” was in the temple building, and the god would know of it.
Ill. 6. — Scale—I : io.
6.
Fragment, not in situ. On a stone in the back wall of a native house. This
house is a few minutes walk from the mosque. Leaving the mosque, you turn to the
right, then to left and again to the right. I had to copy this inscription lying on the
ground, among heaps of various description; the light came in through a small door