Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 zoor0361 Fein 0003

Feinan, 592 CE (?). Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

Reddish sandstone

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The lower right part is preserved

The inscribed surface is weathered and has two cracks starting from the middle of its left side

Round script

 Traces of a big incised cross Below the inscription, to the left 592 CE (?) Negev Feinan South Cemetery

area 5.

 British Institute at Amman for Archaeology and History

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 Initial Entry Edited adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

ἀπέθανεν τὸ τρίτον τοῦ κόσμου. +

(died)one-thirdof the population.

ἀπέθανεν τὸ τρίτον τοῦ κόσμου.

ἀπέθανεν may alternatively precede line two (before τὸ), leaving a gap for line 1. The two possibilities express the uncertainty whether the tombstone is broken only in the upper or both in the upper and lower half parts. This is the third epitaph written for a victim of the famine (see also Fein 0001 and Fein 0002), as the fragmentaly final phrase attests, and it thus may be dated to 592 CE. The textual and palaeographical similarity suggests not only that the three epitaphs were contemporary, but also that they probably belonged to members of the same family.

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