Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. March 22, 354 CE - March 21, 355 CE. Sandstone tombstone, painted and partially engraved. Epitaph.

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painted red square frame Surrounding the age numeral March 22, 354 CE - March 21, 355 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 Corrected encoding adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Ἀβδάλγην Βάγγα ἀποθανόνταςἀποθανόντος ἐτῶν οʹ ἔτους διακοσσιοστοῦδιακοσιοστοῦ τεσαρακοστοῦτεσσαρακοστοῦ ἐνάτου ἡμέρᾳ Ἄρεως

Monument of Abdalges, (son) of Vaggas, who died (at the age) of 70 years, in (the) two hundred and forty-ninth year, on (the) day of Mars (Tuesday)...

ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Ἀβδάλγην Βάγγα ἀποθανόνταςἀποθανόντος ἐτῶν οʹ ἔτους διακοσσιοστοῦδιακοσιοστοῦ τεσαρακοστοῦτεσσαρακοστοῦ ἐνάτου ἡμέρᾳ Ἄρεως

The inscription provides the date as the day of Mars in the year 249 according to Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, a Tuesday between March 22, 354 CE and March 21, 355 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. The inscription contains both grammatical and spelling errors and is recorded in a rounded script with a mixture of engraving and painting. The first three lines as well as the first four letters of the fourth line are engraved and painted red, while the rest of the text is only painted. The painted letters are of better quality than the engraved ones. The author notes that the age numeral is surrounded with a painted red box, while the year (249 of the Era of the Province of Arabia) is recorded in ordinal numbers. The tombstone is broken at its bottom and seems to be missing two more lines, which might tentatively be restored with the common formula "Θάρσει, οὐδείς ἀθάνατος".

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