Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Shiv 0010

Shivta, 23 February 612 CE. Tombstone. Epitaph.

23 February 612 CE Negev Shivta North Church Baptistry

Baptistry 12

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+ Ἐνθάδε κατακεῖται ὁ μακάριος Ἀβραάμιος υἱὸς Ἰωάννου τοῦ βικαρίου διατρίψας ἐν τῷδε τῷ βίῳ πέντε καὶ δύο ἔτη καὶ εἰς τοὺς ἀναφραστοὺς βίου μετέστη τῇ μηνὶ Δύστρου θ᾿ ἰνδικτιῶνος ιε᾿ + ἔτους Φϛ

Here is laying blessed Abraamius son of John the vicar, who has spent in this life five and two years, and he departed from life to the ineffable ones on the ninth of the month of Dystrus, in the 15th indiction-year, in the year 506.

Ἐνθάδε κατακεῖται μακάριος Ἀβραάμιος υἱὸς Ἰωάννου τοῦ βικαρίου διατρίψας ἐν τῷδε τῷ βίῳ πέντε καὶ δύο ἔτη καὶ εἰς τοὺς ἀναφραστοὺς βίου μετέστη τῇ μηνὶ Δύστρου θ᾿ ἰνδικτιῶνος ιε᾿ ἔτους Φϛ

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