Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Zoora, March 22, 355 CE - March 21, 356 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

Sandstone

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Cross End of seventh line March 22, 355 CE - March 21, 356 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 Edited adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Σίλθας Ζηνόβις ἀποθανόνταςἀποθανόντος ἐτῶν ηʹ + ἔτους σνʹ

Monument of Siltha, (daughter) of Zenobi(o)s, who died (at the age) of 8 years, in (the) year 250.

ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Σίλθας Ζηνόβις ἀποθανόνταςἀποθανόντος ἐτῶν ηʹ ἔτους σνʹ

The inscription provides the date as the year 250 according to Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, 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 an oval script with well-cut letters which are engraved and painted red. The tombstone is in fair shape, though is in two parts due to a fracture in its top right corner. The author notes that line 8 contains an example of haplography, with the letter-cutter using the sigma of ἔτους to also stand for the sigma in the year numeral. For similar instances of haplography, see inscriptions Zoor0014 and Zoor0035. The name Σίλθα is recorded 8 times at Ghor es-Safi. A cross is engraved on the seventh line after the age numeral.

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