Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. May 13, 439 CE. Reddish sandstone tombstone. Epitaph.

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May 13, 439 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.

Εἷς Θεός ὁ βοηθῶν. ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Ζήνωνος Ἀρρενίου, ἀποθανόντος μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος ἐτῶν λʹ, ἐν ἔτει τλδʹ, μηνὸς Ἀρτεμεσίου κγʹ. ΘάρσιΘάρσει, Ζήνωνε, οὐδὶςοὐδεὶς ἀθάνατος.

One (is) the God who helps. Monument of Zenon, (son) of Arrenius, who died having a good name (at the age) of 30 years, in the year 334, on (the) 23rd (day) of the month Artemisios. Be of good cheer, Zenon, no one (is) immortal.

Εἷς Θεός ὁ βοηθῶν. ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Ζήνωνος Ἀρρενίου, ἀποθανόντος μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος ἐτῶν λʹ ἐν ἔτει τλδʹ μηνὸς Ἀρτεμεσίου κγʹ ΘάρσιΘάρσει, Ζήνωνε, οὐδὶςοὐδεὶς ἀθάνατος.

The inscription provides the date as the 23rd day of the month Artemisios in the year 334 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, May 13, 439 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 rectangular tombstone is broken at the upper right side and chipped all around. Written in a mixture of round and square script, the text is engraved upon a smoothed surface. The text contains both spelling and grammatical errors.

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