Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 jurn0002 Jurn 0002

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

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

Discovered in secondary use as a building element.

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ΘΑΡΣ ΖΕΒΙΝ ΘΑΕΤ Κ

θάρσει Ζεβίνθα ἐτῶν κ´

Be of good courage, Zebintha! Twenty years old.

θάρσει Ζεβίνθα ἐτῶν κ´

The kappa indicating age in the last line of this inscription is incised beneath an over-arching semicircle. The name Ζεβίνθα itself is not attested, but Ζεβεῖνα, Ζεβινᾶς, and Ζαβῖνα (Aramaic) are, and a name Ζεβ..θα appears on a tombstone from el-Al. There may be an additional letter erased by chipping between the epsilon and beta of line 2. The tree of life, 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.

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