Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. A Thursday between October 18, 379 CE and November 16, 379 CE. Sandstone tombstone, engraved and painted. Epitaph.

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Cross Below the text Heraldic Birds Flanking the cross below the text A Thursday between October 18, 379 CE and November 16, 379 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 Σαβινάθη Σαμιρἀββου, ἀπαθανούσης ἐτῶν κζʹ, ἔτους σοδʹ, μηνὸς Δίου ἡμέρᾳ Διός. ΘάρσιΘάρσει, Σαβινάθη, οὐδίςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος. +

Monument of Sabinathe, (daughter) of Samirabbos, who died (at the age) of 27 years, in (the) year 274, on (the)... (day) of (the) month Dios, on (the) day of Jupiter (Thursday). Be of good cheer Sabinathe, no one (is) immortal.

ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Σαβινάθη Σαμιρἀββου, ἀπαθανούσης ἐτῶν κζʹ ἔτους σοδʹ μηνὸς Δίου ἡμέρᾳ Διός. ΘάρσιΘάρσει, Σαβινάθη, οὐδίςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος.

The inscription provides the date as the day of Jupiter during the month Dios in the year 274 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, a Thursday between October 18, 379 CE and November 16, 379 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 tombstone is worn down and chipped on every side, with a loss of text at the end of lines one through five and line seven. The month day numeral would have appeared at the end of line five, but is lost. The text, which contains both spelling and grammatical errors, is engraved in a round script. Red paint is preserved in some of the letters. The image of a cross flanked by two "heraldic birds" is painted below the text, though much of the image has worn away. The age and year numerals are indicated by overhead horizontal bars. The word μηνός is abbreviated with a small eta above a larger mu.

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