Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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

Cream marble slab, smoothed front and rough back, smoothed upper corners; all margins are preserved.

23.5 31.5 3.5

Letters are deeply incised. Alpha's crossbar is slanting upwards from bottom left hasta. Rounded sigma. Vertical bar of upsilon is very short.

Palm branches Beginning (first line, upper left corner) and end (third line, bottom right corner) of inscription. 4th-6th century CE Coastal Plain Jaffa Necropolis close to Saknet Abu Kabîr

University of Oslo, Institute of Classical Archaeology, inv. no. C. 41676

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Initial Entry Edited Added references to pictures 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

ϹυμμάχουΧίου

(Grave/tomb) of Symmachos, from Chios

This inscription is the only evidence of the presence of Jews in Chios in the Late Empire.

Ϲυμμάχου Χίου

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