Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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

Marble slab

23 32 3.5

Left upper section is missing.

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

Jaffa Museum, IAA no. 1979.503

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

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

זה מקום הציעתו של לעזר בן יהושועשלום מאמא ושלום

This is the restplace of Leazar, son of Joshua. Peace, from the mother?, and peace.

Line 1: The restoration שלום instead of מקום doesn't seem acceptable because a vertical bar is visible, and it cannot belong to a lamed. Line 2: א was not pronounced, and therefore it wasn't written either. Line 3: Despite the fact that different readings have been proposed, no one seems to be completely convincing. The best solution seems to be to read the first and third letter as מ and the second and fourth as א.

זה מקום הציעתו של לעזר בן יהושוע שלום מאמא ושלום

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