Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. November 10, 431 CE. White sandstone tombstone. Epitaph.

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Cross Above and below the text, see note Letter chi Inscribed within the crosses below the text Palm branch Beneath crosses below the inscription November 10, 431 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.

+ ΜνημῖανΜνημεῖον + Παρθενίου, ἀποθανόντος ἐτῶν οʹ, ἔτους τριακοσσιοστοῦτριακοσιοστοῦ κςʹ, μηνὸς Δίου κδʹ, ἡμέρᾳ Κυρίου γʹ. + + +

Monument of Parthenios, who died (at the age) of 70 years, in (the) three hundred and 26th year, on the 24th (day) of (the) month Dios, on (the) 3rd day of (the) Lord (Tuesday).

ΜνημῖανΜνημεῖον Παρθενίου, ἀποθανόντος ἐτῶν οʹ ἔτους τριακοσσιοστοῦτριακοσιοστοῦ κςʹ μηνὸς Δίου κδʹ ἡμέρᾳ Κυρίου γʹ

The inscription records the date as the 3rd day of the Lord (Tuesday), the 24th day of the month Dios in the year 326 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, November 10, 431 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. Originally rectangular, the stone is broken at the lower right corner and curved in the lower left and upper right corners. It is also chipped all around. The smoothed, inscribed surface is flaked off in the upper section. The engraved text, written in a mixture of round and square script, is painted red in lines one, three, and five. Above the text to the right, a simple cross is incised and painted red. A cross also appears on the first of the text, preceding the name of the deceased. Three crosses appear below the text. The middle cross, both engraved and painted red, is outlined with a red painted letter chi in its center. This central cross is flanked by two similar crosses, which are only painted. A red painted, vertical palm branch appears below these three crosses. A horizontal bar appears above the age numeral in line two and the weekday numeral in line five. A horizontal stroke appears above the tens and units figures of the year numeral in line three.

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