Corinth: the synagogue lintel and the meat market
Corinth has a synagogue inscription and an excavated meat market — the two institutions Paul's Corinthian correspondence assumes.
Fakapapau'i 'e he keliTohi tongi maka1st–3rd century AD
A broken stone lintel from the road to the harbour reads "[Syna]gogue of the Hebr[ews]". Nearby, the excavated market building carries a Latin inscription for the macellum — the meat market Paul mentions when writing to the city about food sold there.
Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
- Na'e 'ilo'i
- Corinth, Greece, 1898 — American School of Classical Studies excavations
- 'Oku tauhi 'i
- Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth
- Lea
- Greek and Latin
- Na'e a'u mai fēfē kiate kitautolu
- Na'e keli hake, pe 'oku kei tu'u 'i he potu na'e langa ai.
Ko e me'a 'oku ne fakahā
The lintel is probably later than Paul's stay; it shows a Jewish community with a synagogue on that road, not the building he taught in.
Founga hono ngāue'aki 'e he kau hisitōlia
Standard finds in the archaeology of Roman Corinth.
'I he Folofola
Fekau'aki mo
Ngaahi ma'u'anga fakamatala
- Murphy-O'Connor, St. Paul's Corinth: Texts and Archaeology, 3rd ed.
'Oku 'i he lea faka-Pilitānia 'a e ngaahi fakamatala ko 'eni he taimi ni. 'E muimui mai 'a e liliu.