Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 Haif 0044

Cave of Elijah, 54-70 CE. Room / Interior Space. Graffiti.

 11.3 29.7

The southern part of the inscription is easily legible, but the northern side is very problematic: it is not clear whether the inscription was intentionally damaged

Part of the text is set within the ears of the tabula

Tabula ansata with very large ears, deeply dug iin the wall Around the inscription

54-70 CE Coastal Plain Haifa Cave of Elijah

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

Initial Entry Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames Edited adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

Μνησθῇ Ζεύξιος μὲ γυνὴ αὐτοῦκαὶ ὑιοῦς τ σ Λούκιου Θύμουεὐ μεγάλη νζ ενγγύς καίΛεήθη

Remembered Zeuxiu<s> with his wife and sons [...], Luciu<s>, Thymus good [...] greater [...] NZnear and Lethe

εὐ [...] Μεγάλη: the interpretation of this line is uncertain: εὐ could also be interpreted as the prefix of a work like εὐτυχῆ, that is "good luck" or "fortunate" and μεγάλη could also be a female name, referring perhaps to Zeuxius' wife. This part of the inscription would then read εὐ[τυχῆ] Μεγάλη, "fortunate Megale".

Μνησθῇ Ζεύξιος μὲ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ καὶ ὑιοῦς τ σ Λούκιου Θύμου εὐ μεγάλη νζ ενγγύς καί Λεήθη

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