Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. July 12, 361 CE. Sandstone tombstone, engraved and painted. Epitaph.

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cross above the text guide lines between the lines of text Tuesday July 12, 361 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 Ἀβδοάρθα Ὀλέφου ἀποθανόντος ἐτῶν οʹ ἔτους σνςʹ μηνὸς ΠανέμουΠανήμου κγʹ ἠμέρᾳ Ἄρεως

Monument of Abdoartha(s), (son) of Olefos, who died (at the age) of 70 years, in (the) year 256, on (the) 23rd (day) of (the) month Panemos, on (the) day of Mars (Tuesday).

ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Ἀβδοάρθα Ὀλέφου ἀποθανόντος ἐτῶν οʹ ἔτους σνςʹ μηνὸς ΠανέμουΠανήμου κγʹ ἠμέρᾳ Ἄρεως

The inscription provides the date as the 23rd day of the month Panemos on the day of Mars, in the year 256 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, Tuesday July 12, 361 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 spelling errors and is recorded in a round alphabet with irregular letter heights. The letters are engraved and painted red. The age, year and month numeral are indicated by a horizontal stroke above them. The words ἔτους and μηνός are abbreviated with their first two letters and no abbreviation mark. The author notes that the name Ἀβδοάρθας appears in one other inscription from Ghor es-Safi as a patronymic (zoor0075). An engraved cross which is also painted red is seen above the inscription, while traces of guide lines are still visible between some of the lines of text.

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