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

Raphia, 316-317 CE. Lead weight. Label.

Lead

8.7 8.6 .4-.5

small palm branch at end of inscription three concentric circles around a central dot on reverse side of inscription palm branch, facing down on reverse side of inscription, lower left field design with four triangles and a "long petal springing up from the point between the second and third triangles" on reverse side of inscription, lower right field

316-317 CE Coastal Plain Raphia (modern Rafah) Unknown

Rockerfeller Museum, Jerusalem

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

Initial Entry Christopher B. Zeichmann

ΕΤΟΥΣΣΤΟΤ ΑΡΧΗΣΕΥΦΗ ΑΩΑΓΟΡΑ ΜΟΝΟΥpalm branch

Ἔτους ϛοτ᾽ Ἀρχῆς Εὐφήμου Ἀπουλλωνίου ἀγορανόμου

Year 376, when Euphemus son of Apollonius held the magistracy of agoranomos.

inscription uses a stigma (shown here w/ ϛ); and the digamma in the date takes the form of a "squat pi"

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