Footnote 4 – A Voice from the Past: A Former Slave Enters the Jewish Community

This inscription is published in V.V. Struve, Corpus Inscriptionum Regni Bosporani (Moscow: Academy of Science, 1965; in Russian and Greek), no. 70; and in J.-B. Frey, Corpus Inscriptionum Judaicarum (Rome: Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology, 1936), no. 683 (revised by B. Lifshitz [New York: Ktav, 1975]). The above translation is by Robert S. MacLennan and J. Andrew Overman.