Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Jaffa, 4th-6th century CE. Tombstone. Funerary.

White marble slab with grey streaks. Smoothed front and rough back.

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Two fitting fragments, broken on bottom left and right corners.

First line 3-4cm. Second line 1cm. Letter forms: right diagonal line of alpha and middle line of nu are curved. Alpha's cross bar slants upwards from bottom left hasta. Rounded epsilon, sigma and omega. Upsilon has no vertical bar. Hebrew letters are carved incompetently.

 4th-6th century CE Coastal Plain Jaffa Necropolis close to Saknet Abu Kabîr

University of Oslo, Institute of Classical Archaeology, inv. no. C. 41668

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Initial Entry Edited Edited Added references to pictures Tagged Hebrew as foreign adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value. Inscription front side. University of Oslo, Institute of Classical Archaeology Inscription back side. University of Oslo, Institute of Classical Archaeology

Βενιαμιςυἱὸς Ἰωσηφκαὶ Ἀμβωμαρη שלום

Beniamis, son of Joseph and (of?) Ambomare. Peace.

The third name is presumably an orthographic variant for Ἀββομαρις. Abbomaris was probably buried in the same tomb as Benjamin.

Βενιαμις υἱὸς Ἰωσηφ καὶ Ἀμβωμαρη שלום

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