Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. March 22, 371 CE to March 21, 372 CE. Sandstone tombstone, engraved and painted. Epitaph.

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cross-rho Between lines 6 and 7 March 22, 371 CE to March 21, 372 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 Οὐϊκτωρίνου, τριβούνου τελευτήσαντος ἐν ἔτιἔτει σξςʹ. ΕὐψύχιΕὐψύχει, καλὲ ἄνθρωπε.

Monument of Ouictorinos (Victorinus), the tribune, who died in the year 266. Be of good cheer, oh good man.

Μνημῖονμνημεῖον Οὐϊκτωρίνου, τριβούνου τελευτήσαντος ἐν ἔτιἔτει σξςʹ ΕὐψύχιΕὐψύχει, καλὲ ἄνθρωπε.

The inscription provides the date as the year 266 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, between March 22, 371 CE and March 21, 372 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 engraved and painted. It is recorded in a round script, and is aligned on an upward slant from left to right. The tombstone shows many signs of wear and was found in two fragments. The year numeral is marked with a horizontal bar above it. There is an engraved and painted cross-rho between lines 6 and 7. The author notes that the title of "tribune" was applied to a broad range of people, ranging from officers in the military to civil officials. The name Οὐϊκτωρῖνος is a Greek transcription of the Latin name Victorinus and rare in a Christian context, particularly in Palestine. The author suggests that he was likely a military tribune based on the fact that there was a Roman military Garrison located at Zoora in the late third century CE.

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