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Golan Heights. El-‘Uyun. Date unknown. Tombstone. Epitaph.
El-‘Uyun is a small modern village in the southern extremity of the lower Golan plateau above the cliffs of Wadi Mas'aud; the village is build on a ruin 15 dunams in extent and a small tel rises on its north-western edge.
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θάρσι
Ἀντίοχ
αἰτ
ΘΑΡΣΙ
ΑΝΤΙΟΧ
ΑΙΤΩ
Be of good courage, Antiochus! ? years old.
On the fourth line of the stone is a problematic symbol (symbols?). As shown by Schumacher, it consists of a dotted circle with a continuing horizontal line running to the right and intersecting what appears to be a fragmentary letter or figure. If the dotted circle represents a Θ (theta), Antiochus died at the age of 9; if it is an Ο (omicron), then he died at age 70. The remaining mark looks like an opening parenthesis mark and does not yield any meaning.