Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. August 12, 366 CE. Sandstone tombstone, engraved and painted. Epitaph.

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red painted frame Surrounding lines 1 through 6 red painted zigzag decoration Adjacent to the inner side of the painted frame March 22, 367 CE to March 21, 368 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 Ἀβδομάνης Ἀλφίου ἀποθανόντος ἔτη αʹ, ἔτους σξβʹ

Monument of Abdomanes, (son) of Alphios, who died (at the age) of 1 year, in (the) year 262.

Μνημῖονμνημεῖον Ἀβδομάνης Ἀλφίου ἀποθανόντος ἔτη αʹ ἔτους σξβʹ

The inscription provides the date as the year 262 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, between March 22, 367 CE and March 21, 368 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 a spelling and a grammatical error, and is engraved and painted red. The characters of the inscription are recorded in a round script with an inconsistent height. The tombstone is chipped around its edges and is in relatively good shape. Lines 1 through 6 of the inscription are surrounded by a red painted frame, on the inside of which is a zigzag decoration also painted in red. The age and year numerals are denoted by a horizontal bar above them. The author suggests that "Ἀβδομάνης" is a nominative form, and therefore should corrected as either "Ἀβδομάνου" or "Ἀβδομάνη" (the genitive).

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