Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. March 22, 375 CE to March 21, 376 CE. Sandstone tombstone, engraved and painted. Epitaph.

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Two crosses One above and one below the text Guide lines Between some lines of text March 22, 375 CE to March 21, 376 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 Ὀμμαβίης Σιλανοῦ, τελευτησάσης ἐτῶν ιγʹ, ἐν ἔτιἔτει σοʹ. ΘάρσιΘάρσει, οὐδεὶς ἀθάνατος. +

Monument of Ommabie, (daughter) of Silanus, who died (at the age) of 13 years, in the year 270. Be of good cheer, no on (is) immortal.

Μνημῖονμνημεῖον Ὀμμαβίης Σιλανοῦ, τελευτησάσης ἐτῶν ιγʹ ἐν ἔτιἔτει σοʹ ΘάρσιΘάρσει, οὐδεὶς ἀθάνατος.

The inscription provides the date as the year 270 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, March 22, 375 CE to March 21, 376 CE. The tombstone is one of about 700 discovered in Byzantine Zoora and is in very good condition. The majority of the Greek tombstones from this location have been identified as Christian. The text of the inscription is engraved and painted red in a round script. Traces of engraved guidelines can still be observed in some parts of the text. A small cross painted red is centered above the text, while a small engraved and painted cross is centered below it. The age and year numeral are denoted with a horizontal bar above them. The author indicates that the name Ὀμμάβι is encountered in various forms in inscriptions Ghor es-Safi.

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