Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Zoora, August 24, 440 CE. Tombstone. Epitaph.

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Red sandstone

Rectangular stone, broken in the upper and lower left corners and chipped all around

The inscribed surface has been smoothed and is flaked off in the upper right corner and on the left side. The inscription is written in the lower half of the tombstone, set in between guide lines: bothe these and the text are painted over in red. Square script

 Guide-lines Within the text Cross At the beginning of the first line August 24, 440 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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+ ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον ἘπιφονίαἘπιφανίας Εὐσεβίου, ἀποθανοῦσα ι μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνάματοςὀνόματος ἐτῶν ιζʹ, ἐν μενὶμηνὶ ΓαρπιαίῳΓορπιαίῳ ςʹ, ἐν ἔτϛει τλεʹ, ἡμέρᾳ ζʹ.

Monument of Epiphania, (daughter) of Eusebios, who died having a good name (at the age) of 17 years, in (the) year 335, on the 6th (day) of the month Gorpiaios, in (the year) 335, on the 7th day (Sunday).

Μνημῖον Ἐπιφονία Εὐσεβίου, ἀποθανοῦσα ι μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνάματος ἐτῶν ιζʹ ἐν μενὶ Γαρπιαίῳ ςʹ ἐν ἔτϛει τλεʹ ἡμέρᾳ ζʹ

The inscription provides the date as the 7th day (Saturday), the 6th day of the month Gorpiaios in the year 335 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, August 24, 440 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. In line two, the stone-cutter initially wrote the name of the deceased with a masculine ending but later changed it to feminine. A vertical line at the end of line four may be a superfluous iota. In line nine, the two-letter abbreviation of ἔτει is now lost, although the symbol S remains. The editor notes that the name of the deceased, Ἐπιφονία, is a variant of Ἐπιφάνιος and appears here for the first time at Ghor es-Safi. The text contains both spelling and grammatical errors.

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