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Title: Oinoe, Ikaria island: proverbial phrase discriminating against the Jews, late 5th/6th century
Start date: 475
End date: 525
Historical Period: Early Byzantine/Late Antique Period
Description: 

Proverbial phrase discriminating against the Jews: Text: “There is no way that you can ever hear (an) [[Ikarian]] Jew(s) telling the truth”. According to the IG (XII.6.2.1263), the stone originally read Ikarion, but this was erased, and Ioudeon was added in larger letters. If the editors are right, the Christian Ikarians were evidently retaliating for an insult received from Jews. Yet D. Feissel argued that the word Ioudeon was not added after the erasure, but, according to him, the erasure was intended to give a more general meaning to the anti-Jewish maxim.

Place: Nisí Ikaría, Greece  
Languages: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Medium: stone (worked rock)
Project: BYZART Project  
Fond: OUC Georgios Deligiannakis Archive  
Physical type: inscriptions
Data provider: Open University of Cyprus  
License: All rights reserved
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