Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 khis0071 Khis 0071

Khisfin, 100 CE - 299 CE. Block. Dedicatory.

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100 CE - 299 CE Golan Khisfin

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Creation Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames Modified Summary Description; changed Type of Object and added material; added Columns and Lines; added Condition; modified Notes. Corrected encoding (abbreviations) adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

ΑΟΥΛΠΙΟΣ ΡΗΛΟΥΕΛΕΓΓΚΥΡΔΙΙΒΗΕΥΞΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ

Αὔλος Οὔλπιος Αὐρήλιος οὐετερανὸς λεγιῶνος γ Κυρηναίων Διὶ Βήλῳ εὐξάμενος ἀνέθηκεν.

Aulos(?) Ulpios Aurelius(?), a veteran of legion III Cyrenaica, having made a vow to Zeus Bel, dedicated (this).

Αὔλος Οὔλπιος Αὐρήλιος οὐετερανὸς λεγιῶνος γ Κυρηναίων Διὶ Βήλῳ εὐξάμενος ἀνέθηκεν.

The inscription (a cornerstone?) seems to be complete. Though there may be a preceding line or lines, no partial letters appear on the right and left edges of the stone. The placement of the three letters in line 5 suggest a centering by the stonecutter. A date in the second or third century seems likely for this inscription, as legion III Cyrenaica was in Syria/North Arabia throughout the third century, and for some time prior to that.

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