Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. October 2, 387 CE. White sandstone tombstone. Epitaph.

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Cross-rho Within sun-disc centered above the text Sun-disc Centered above the text inside of the frame Cross Two flanking the sun-disc and another centered below the text Palm-branch Three branches comprise the frame surrounding the top, left, and right of the text October 2, 387 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.

+ + ΜνημῖωνΜνημεῖον Ἰωάννου Ἀττικοῦ, ἀποθανόντος ἐτῶν ζʹ,ἔτους σπβʹ, μηνὸς Ὑπερβερεταίου ειʹ. θάρσιθάρσει, οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος. +

Monument of Ioannes, (son) of Attikos, who died (at the age) of 7 years, in (the) year 282, on the 15th (day) of (the) month Hyperberetaios. Be of good cheer, no one (is) immortal.

ΜνημῖωνΜνημεῖον Ἰωάννου Ἀττικοῦ, ἀποθανόντος ἐτῶν ζʹ ἔτους σπβʹ μηνὸς Ὑπερβερεταίου ειʹ θάρσιθάρσει, οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος.

The inscription provides the date as the 15th day of the month Hyperberetaios in the year 282 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, October 2, 387 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, which is rectangular, is chipped on all edges and broken at the lower right corner. The script is square with a characteristic rhomboid shape of letters ο and θ (also shared with Zoor0058) and a horizontal bar in the middle of letter ψ. The text is engraved and heavily painted over in red. The inscription is surrounded, except for the lower side, by a frame composed of three palm branches. All three branches are painted red, but only the upper branch is engraved. A cluster of red-painted figures appear between this upper branch and the text: a cross-rho within a radiant sun-disc flanked by two crosses. Of these figures, only the cross-rho is engraved. The text contains several ligatures. An engraved outlined cross is centered below the text. In line four, a horizontal bar tops the age numeral. In line five, a horizontal stroke tops the year numeral. In line seven, the inversion of the month day numeral is denoted by a horizontal bar.

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