Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Zoora, Tuesday, January 28, 378 CE. Tombstone. Epitaph.

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Sandstone

Almost oval shape, rounded and chipped all around

The inscribed surface, all smoothe with the exception of its lower part, is completely damage and as a result the upper half of the inscription is lost. Lines 7, 10, 12 preserve red paint. The letters are fairly well cut and the last two lines are rather squeezed due to lack of space

 Engraved frame, painted over in red Arond the inscription, preserved on the right, left and bottom of the text Bird Below the lower right corner of the frame Tuesday, January 28, 378 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 Edited metadata; corrected encoding adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

μετά καλοῦ ὀνόματος καὶ καλῆς πίστεως ἐτῶν κʹ, ἔτϛους σοβʹ, μηνὶ Περιτίου ιγʹ, ἡμήρᾳἡμέρα Κυρίου γʹ. ΘάρσιΘάρσει, οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος

[... having a good name] (and) good faith (at the age) of 20 years, in (the) year 272, on (the) 13th (day) of (the) month Peritios, on (the) 3rd day of (the) Lord (Tuesday). Be of good cheer, no one (is) immortal.

μετά καλοῦ ὀνόματος καὶ καλῆς πίστεως ἐτῶν κʹ ἔτϛους σοβʹ μηνὶ Περιτίου ιγʹ ἡμέρα Κυρίου γʹ Θάρσι οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος

The inscription provides the date as the Third Day of the Lord, on the 13th of Peritios in the year 272 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, Tuesday, January 28, 378 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 year, month day and weekday numerals are all indicated with horizontal bars over the letters. The author offers a tentative restoration of what he believes to be lines four and five based upon a common epitaph formula. Aside from the reconstruction provided, the first few lines likely included the name and patronymic of the deceased.

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