Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Kark 0001

Karak, October/November 661 CE. Tombstone. Funerary.

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Crosses Upper part of monument and below text Ripples Upper part of monument and below text Mouldings Upper part of monument and below text

October/November 661 CE Jordan Karak31.183333,35.7

Jordan Museum, inv. K 239 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 edits

+ Ἐνθάδε κῖτε Ἔσδου Γεωργίου, ἀναγνόστου, ζήσας ἔτη ζ᾿, τελευτήσας ἐν μηνὶ Δίῳ τοῦ ἔτους φνς᾿

Here lies Esdou, son of the lector Georgios, who lived 7 years and died in the month Dios, in the year 556.

Ἐνθάδε κῖτε Ἔσδου Γεωργίου, ἀναγνόστου, ζήσας ἔτη ζ᾿ τελευτήσας ἐν μηνὶ Δίῳ τοῦ ἔτους φνς᾿

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