Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 jurn0001 Jurn 0001

Golan Heights. Jurniyye, Byzantine period. Tombstone. Epitaph.

 55 41 20

tree of life bottom left of stone Byzantine period Golan Jurniyye32.801667,35.687778

Discovered in secondary use as a building element.

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ΘΑΡΣΙ ΙΔΑΒ ΑΕΤ Μ

θάρσι Ἰδαβα ἐτῶν μ´

Be of good courage, Idaba! Forty years old.

θάρσι Ἰδαβα ἐτῶν μ´

The name Ιδαβα, presumably feminine, is not attested, although the similar Ιδας is. The tree of life (which appears in the last line of this inscription), a Jewish symbol in origin, was commonly borrowed by Christians and thus its presence does not decisively indicate religion. Dimensions refer to entire remainder of stone.

142-143