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Description: Photo of Exhibit at the Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv - en:Beit Hatefutsot Replica of Theodotos inscription, A greek stone inscription mentioning Theogotos Vettenos as benefactor and head of the synagogue on the Ophel hill in Jerusalem built prior to the destruction of the Second temple Replica (Replica Jerusalem, Rockfeller Museum) The inscription reads: Theodotus, son of Vettenus, priest and archisynagogue, son of an archisynagogue, grandson of an archisynagogue, built the synagogue for the reading of the Law and the teaching of the commandments, and guest-house and the rooms and the water supplies for the lodging of strangers in need, which his fathers founded and the Elders and Simonides. (Translation . S. Berrin from J.-B. Frey, Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaicarum, no. 140. )
Title: Theodotus inscription
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