PROMETHEUS Project Lecture Recording Now Available: Epigraphic Practice in Ancient Thrace by Nikolay Sharankov

Stobi, an ancient city in Macedonia, housed a significant Jewish community during the Roman Empire. In 311 AD, Claudius Tiberius Polycharmos, also known as Achyrios, donated part of his house for religious purposes. The inscription published under No. 739 in the edition of Inscriptiones Graecae X.2.2.2 highlights his generosity and the community's importance. The text reads:

"In the year 311, Claudius Tiberius Polycharmos, also called Achyrios, the father of the synagogue at Stobi, who held all his offices according to Judaism, because of a vow, gave a part of his house for the holy place, triclinium with a tetrastoon, from his own money, taking nothing from the holy treasury; the disposition and property of the upper part of the house will be mine, of Claudius Tiberius Polycharmos, and of my inheritors for a lifetime. If anyone wants to change something against my decisions, let him give 250,000 denars to the