Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. December 17, 323 CE - January 15, 324 CE. Sandstone tombstone. Epitaph.

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December 17, 323 CE - January 15, 324 CE Negev Zoora An Naq cemetery

Found by local inhabitants in the northwest corner of the Bronze Age, Byzantine and Islamic cemetery in the An Naq neighborhood south of the Wadi al-Hasa, probably in secondary use in later graves.

Department of Antiquities of Jordan

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 Creation Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Παύλου Γεμέλλου τελευτήσαντος ἐτῶν δεκαοκτώ ἔτους διακοσιστοῦ ιηʹ μηνὸς Αὐδοναίου

Monument of Paulus, (son) of Gemellus, who died (at the age) of eighteen years, in (the) two hundred and 18th year, on (the) .. (day) of (the) month Audynaios...

ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Παύλου Γεμέλλου τελευτήσαντος ἐτῶν δεκαοκτώ ἔτους διακοσιστοῦ ιηʹ μηνὸς Αὐδοναίου

The inscription provides the month of Audynaios in the year 218 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia as its date, or December 17, 323 CE to January 15, 324 CE. A day was likely provided among the at least three lines which are no longer extant (having broken off from the bottom of the tombstone). The last two characters on line 6 are also missing due to this break. The script has a round form, and the text is engraved and painted red. The author notes that μνημῖον is a misspelling of μνημεῖον. The tombstone is one of about 700 discovered in Byzantine Zoora. The majority of the Greek tombstones from this location have been identified as Christian. The practice spelling out the year numeral (in this case in line 5) while representing the tens and units places with numerical signs is attested in some of the other tombstone inscriptions from the area.

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