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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... :cry:

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.