Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 Jaff 0071

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

Yellow-white limestone slab, top shaped into a curve. Smoothed front and back, rough unfinished edges.

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Shallowly incised. Rounded epsilon and omega.

Palm branch End of line 2 4th-6th century CE Coastal Plain Jaffa Necropolis close to Saknet Abu Kabîr

Discovered in Cave D, by the entrance to the western chamber.

 Jaffa Museum, IAA no. 95-137.

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

 Initial Entry Edited adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value. added diplomatic transcription - combined with Iopp0002

ΤΟΠΟϹΤΟΝΗΓΟΡΑϹΑΕΓΩΝΟΝΝΟϹ

Τόπος τὸν ἠγόρασαἐγὼ Νόννος

This is the burial place [that] I, Nonnos, bought.

Line 1: Verb has legal connotation as in Jaff 0027. Line 2: the name appears also in Jaff 0008. The original translation read: "whom I, Nonnos, bought": the correction to "that" is ours.

Τόπος τὸν ἠγόρασα ἐγὼ Νόννος

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