Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 zoor0014 zoor0014

Negev. Zoora. June 25, 355 CE. Sandstone tombstone. Epitaph.

 36 31 06

outlined engraved cross Centered above the inscription Incised cross-rho monogram Centered below the text June 25, 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 fixed Latin M to Greek Μ in Μνημεῖον adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

+ ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Ἀλκάνις Ἀσλόμου ἀποθανόντος ἐτῶν λζʹ ἔτους σνʹ μηνὸς ΠονίμουΠανήμου ςʹ Θάρσιθάρσει οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος

Monument of Alkani(os), (son) of Aslomos, who died (at the age) of 37 years, in (the) year 250, on (the) 6th (day) of (the) month Panemos. Be of good cheer, no one (is) immortal.

ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Ἀλκάνις Ἀσλόμου ἀποθανόντος ἐτῶν λζʹ ἔτους σνʹ μηνὸς ΠονίμουΠανήμου ςʹ Θάρσιθάρσει οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος

The inscription lists the date as the 6th day of the month Panemos in the year 250 according to Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, June 25, 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 round script with well-cut letters. There is an engraved cross above the text as well as an "incised cross-rho monogram" below it. The month and day numeral is indicated by a horizontal bar in "oblique position" above the letter. The author notes that line 5 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 Zoor0013 and Zoor0035. Based on the similar script and the instances of hapolgraphy the author suggests that Zoor0013 and Zoor0014 may have had the same engraver.

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