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<title>Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine</title>
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<resp>Prinicipal Investigator</resp>
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<p>Zoora, Tuesday, January 28, 378 CE. Tombstone. Epitaph.</p>
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<p>Sandstone</p>
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<p>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</p>
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<ab>Engraved frame, painted over in red</ab>
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<ab>Bird</ab>
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<date period="http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p0m63njjcn4" notBefore="0378" notAfter="0378">Tuesday, January 28, 378 CE</date>
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<geogName type="site">An Naq</geogName>
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<p>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.</p>
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<placeName>Department of Antiquities of Jordan</placeName>
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<change when="2010-04-09" who="persons.xml#Eric_Gruebel">Creation</change>
<change when="2016-12-14" who="persons.xml#Elli_Mylonas">Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames</change>
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adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.
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<supplied reason="lost">μετά</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost">καλοῦ</supplied>
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<supplied reason="lost">ὀνόματος</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost">καὶ</supplied>
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<unclear>καλῆς</unclear>
<unclear>πίστεως</unclear><lb/> ἐτῶν <num>κʹ</num>,
<expan><abbr>ἔτ<am>ϛ</am></abbr><ex>ους</ex></expan>
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<num>σοβʹ</num>, μηνὶ Περι<lb break="no"/>τίου <num>ιγʹ</num>, <choice><reg>ἡμήρᾳ</reg><orig>ἡμέρα</orig></choice>
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<expan><abbr>Κυ</abbr><ex>ρίου</ex></expan>
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<p>[... 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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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