Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. August 19, 345 CE - September 17, 345 CE. Sandstone tombstone, engraved and painted. Epitaph.

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Cross Above the text August 19, 345 CE - September 17, 345 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 Ὀλεφου Βουέσθα ἀποθανόντα ἐν ἔτιἔτει σμʹ μηνὶ ΓορπιέουΓοργιαιῳ

Monument of Olefos (son) of Bouestha, who died in the year 240, on (the) ... (day) of (the) month Gorpiaios.

Μνημῖονμνημεῖον Ὀλεφου Βουέσθα ἀποθανόντα ἐν ἔτιἔτει σμʹ μηνὶ ΓορπιέουΓοργιαιῳ

The inscription provides a date of the month of Gorpiaios in the year 240 according the Era of the Province of Arabia, or August 19, 345 CE - September 17, 345 CE. 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. Though a cross is clearly engraved above the body of the text, the right hand section of the stone is badly weathered. The inscription has both orthographic and grammatical errors, and is engraved in a round script. The text is engraved and painted red. That author notes that the absence of a recorded age of death is a rare phenomenon in the extant Ghor es-Safi tombstones.

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