Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. September 25, 370 CE. Sandstone tombstone. Epitaph.

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crosses One beginning and ending the first line, one ending the last line, two below the last text September 25, 370 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.

+ Μνημῖανμνημεῖον Θηά+θηΘηάθη Ῥούφου, παυσαμένη ἐτῶν ιεʹ, ἐν ἔτους σξεʹ, μηνὶμηνός ὙπερβερετέουὙπερβερεταίου ηʹ. + + +

Monument of Theathe, (daughter) of Rufus, who died (at the age) of 15 years, in the year 265, on (the) 8th (day) of (the) month Hyperberetaios.

Μνημῖανμνημεῖον Θηά+θηΘηάθη Ῥούφου, παυσαμένη ἐτῶν ιεʹ ἐν ἔτους σξεʹ μηνὶμηνός ὙπερβερετέουὙπερβερεταίου ηʹ

The inscription provides the date as the 8th day of the month Hyperberetaios in the year 265 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, September 25, 370 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 and grammatical errors and is engraved only. It is recorded in a round letters. The tombstone is in fair condition, with chips and flaking. The age, year and month day numerals are marked with a horizontal bar above them. There are five engraved crosses in the text; one on the beginning and end of line 1, on at the end of the last line, and two below the text. The second eta of the word Θηάθη is missing its middle bar. The author notes though that the name Θηάθη is not documented thus far elsewhere in Israel/Palestine and Arabia, it seems to be the lengthened form of the name Θέη, which has been found twice in Ghor es-Safi and Moab.

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