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Can anyone identify this greek text on the wall of a pizza s
Posted: September 4th, 2014, 12:24 pm
by Zisha Wein
I came across this wallpaper on the wall of a pizza shop in NY and it seems to me to be from the NT but I dont know exactly where.
I've been able to identify the words συναγωγ? and αρχι
Have a look at this link and see if you can figure it out. There is some glare on the left side obscuring the σ from συναγωγ?
http://tinyurl.com/mfzbmxz
Re: Can anyone identify this greek text on the wall of a piz
Posted: September 5th, 2014, 10:28 am
by Stephen Hughes
The Theodotus Inscription.
Re: Can anyone identify this greek text on the wall of a piz
Posted: September 5th, 2014, 11:24 am
by Zisha Wein
Thank you!
Re: Can anyone identify this greek text on the wall of a piz
Posted: September 5th, 2014, 3:18 pm
by Jonathan Robie
So did he win a pizza?
Re: Can anyone identify this greek text on the wall of a piz
Posted: September 6th, 2014, 1:36 am
by Stephen Hughes
Jonathan Robie wrote:So did he win a pizza?
Ha ha. No need for a prize. It was just a simple search engine image search. It is a picture of an
inscription, it's written in
Greek, and it mentions
synagogue, so I searched for "synagogue inscription Greek", then looking for a match between the image in the pizzeria and one in the search. No rocket science there. Total time including posting the cut-and-paste reply was 45 seconds. Zisha's simple "Thank you" is more than adequate.
Anyway, would any NY pizza shops (
πιτσαρία - Modern Greek) deliver (παραδῷ + dative) to me here in rural China? I guess not...
That being said, I doooo love a good pizza (
πίτσα - Modern Greek).
Besides cheese (
τυρός), my favourite toppings (
συστατικόν lit.
ingredient I'd use this for "topping" if I were to design my own pizza with just these toppings, or I'd just use
μέρος, τό if I were to say which toppings I like best on a pizza with other toppings already combined, like on a Super Supreme) are anchovies (
μεμβράς), olives (ἐλαία) and a smattering of onion (
κρόμμυον).
Re: Can anyone identify this greek text on the wall of a piz
Posted: September 6th, 2014, 4:15 am
by Michael Theophilos
Stephen Hughes wrote:The Theodotus Inscription.
Θεόδοτος Οὐεττήνου, ἱερεὺς καὶ
ἀρχισυνάγωγος, υἱὸς ἀρχισυν[αγώ]-
γ[ο]υ υἱωνὸς ἀρχισυν[α]γώγου, ᾠκο-
δόμησε τὴν συναγωγὴν εἰς ἀνάγ[ν]ω-
σ[ι]ν νόμου καὶ εἰς [δ]ιδαχ[ὴ]ν ἐντολῶν, καὶ
τὸν ξενῶνα, κα[ὶ τὰ] σώματα καὶ τὰ χρη-
σ[τ]ήρια τῶν ὑδάτων εἰς κατάλυμα τοῖ-
ς [χ]ρήζουσιν ἀπὸ τῆς ξέ[ν]ης, ἣν ἐθεμε-
λ[ίω]σαν οἱ πατέρες αὐτοῦ καὶ οἱ πρε-
σ[βύ]τεροι καὶ Σιμωνίδης.