Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. March 22, 356 CE - March 21 365 CE. Sandstone tombstone. Epitaph.

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March 22, 356 CE - March 21 365 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.

ΘάρσιΘάρσει ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Σολέμου Σαμιράββου ἀποθάντοςἀποθανόντος ἐτῶν λζʹ ἔτους σν

Be of good cheer. Monument of Solemos, (son) of Samirabbos, who died (at the age) of 37 years, in (the) year 25[.].

ΘάρσιΘάρσει ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Σολέμου Σαμιράββου ἀποθάντοςἀποθανόντος ἐτῶν λζʹ ἔτους σν

The inscription provides the date as the the year 25[-] according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, March 22, 356 CE to March 21, 365 CE. The last units figure of the year is missing, with a possible numeral ranging from αʹ to θʹ (1-9). 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 numerous spelling errors and is recorded in a mixture of a round and square script with relatively well-cut letters and an irregular alignment. The tombstone is broken on all sides. Though the word Θάρσει usually appears at the end of epitaphs at Ghor es-Safi, it is instead the first word in this inscription and in Zoor0004. A "slightly curved line" is cut above the age numeral, while the horizontal bar above the year numeral is partially preserved.

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