Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Jera 0014

Jerash, Early 2nd century CE. Stele. Epitaph.

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Triangular tympanum Above insciption Rosette Within tympanum

Early 2nd century CE Jordan Jerash

Jordan Museum inv. G 1232 Plaque Slab Panel Tablet Block Building Stone Chancel Screen Column Post Capital Flagstone Architectural Fragment Niche Arch Architrave Arcosolium Room / Interior Space Door Lintel Threshold Ceiling Wall Floor Pavement Revetment Window Hall Ledge Fresco Altar Ossuary Sarcophagus Tomb Tombstone Kokh Stele Ceramic Vessel Amphora Bowl Jar Jug Handle Lid Potsherd Weight Sundial Mosaic Ostrakon Boundary Marker Milestone Marker Monument Statue Base Pedestal Statue Protome Rock Ring Gem Amulet Seal Stamp Unidentifiable Object Other Object Stone Marble Limestone Kurkar Granite Tufa Other Stone Unknown Stone Clay Metal Plaster Glass Wood Bone Other Material Unknown Material Funerary --Funerary (Epitaph) --Funerary (Malediction) Dedicatory --Votive --Offering --Imperial Dedication Acclamation Honorific --Honorific (Other) Building Legal Receipt Place Marker --Boundary Marker --Milestone Magic --Apotropaic --Malediction Verse Prayer Invocation Prophecy Label --Label (Sundial) --Label (Ownership) --Label (Token) --Label (Weight) --Label (Weapon) Financial Graffiti Abecedary Calendar Other Text Unknown Text Complete --Complete but broken --Complete and intact Single Fragment Multiple Fragments --Contiguous Fragments --Non-Contiguous Fragments Impressed --Inscribed -- --Chiseled -- -- Etched (with a sharp point) -- -- Carved --In Troughs --In Points (chasing) --Other Protruding --Applied --Molded --In Relief (cut) --In Points (repouss) Painted --With Brush --With Other Inset --Mosaic --Inlaid Stamped --Impressed --In Relief Christian Jewish Other Unknown Initial Entry

Χαῖρε σοὶ καὶ ὁ ἀναγιγνώσκων· Μᾰρκος Οὔλπιος Σώφρων Σεβαστοῦ ἀπελεύθερος ἐποίησεν Εὐτύχῃ τ ἰδίῷ δούλῳ ἀξιῳ γενομένζήσαντι ἔτη ιθ᾿

Farewell, to you and to the reader, Marcus Ulpius Sophron, imperial freedman made (this) for Eutyches, his own slave, who was worthy of it and who lived 19 years.

Χαῖρε σοὶ καὶ ἀναγιγνώσκων· Μᾰρκος Οὔλπιος Σώφρων Σεβαστοῦ ἀπελεύθερος ἐποίησεν Εὐτύχῃ τ ἰδίῷ δούλῳ ἀξιῳ γενομέν ζήσαντι ἔτη ιθ᾿

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