Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Shiv 0014

Shivta, 30 September 505 or 509 CE. Building inscription. Dedicatory.

Unknown object - no photograph survives

Byzantine Negev Shivta Unknown

now lost

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

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+ Σὺν Θεῷ. Ἐγένετω τούτω τὼ ἔργον ἐπὶ τῶν λαμπρωτάτων πριώρων καὶ ἐπὶ Φλαουίου Ἰωάννου Στεφάνου βικαρίου ἰνδικτιῶνος γ' μηνὶ Ὑπερβερεταίου ιγ᾿ τοῦ ἔτους Υ +

With the help fo God this work has been completed in the times of the most illustrius prioron and in the time of Flavius John (son) of Stephen the vicar, in the 3rd indiction-year, on the 13th of the month of Hyperberetaius in the year 400.

The year 400 (505 CE) was not on the third indiction-year. The nearest third indiction-year was 509 CE. It is unclear which of the year listings is correct.

Σὺν Θεῷ. Ἐγένετω τούτω τὼ ἔργον ἐπὶ τῶν λαμπρωτάτων πριώρων καὶ ἐπὶ Φλαουίου Ἰωάννου Στεφάνου βικαρίου ἰνδικτιῶνος γ' μηνὶ Ὑπερβερεταίου ιγ᾿ τοῦ ἔτους Υ

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