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            <title>Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine</title>
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                     <p>Negev. Zoora. April 3, 441 CE. White sandstone tombstone. Epitaph.</p>
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                     <date period="http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p0m63njjcn4" notBefore="0441" notAfter="0441">April 3, 441 CE</date>
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                     <p>Found by local inhabitants in the northwest corner of the Bronze
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                            the Wadi al-Hasa, probably in secondary use in later graves.</p>
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            <p><g ref="cross">+</g><lb/> Εἷς Θεός. <choice><sic>Μνημῖ<lb break="no"/>ον</sic><corr>Μνημεῖον</corr></choice> Εὐδοξίου<lb/> Σελαμάνου, ἀπο<lb break="no"/>θανόντος με<lb/>τὰ καλοῦ
                  ὀνόμα<lb break="no"/>τος ἐτῶν <num>μςʹ</num>,<lb/> ἐν <choice><sic>ἔτι</sic><corr>ἔτει</corr></choice>
               <num>τλςʹ</num>, <expan><abbr>μην</abbr><ex>ὸς</ex></expan>
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               <expan><abbr>Ξανθ</abbr><ex>ικοῦ</ex></expan>
               <num>ιγʹ</num>, <expan><abbr>ἡμ</abbr><ex>έρᾳ</ex></expan>
               <expan><abbr>Κυ</abbr><ex>ρίου</ex></expan>
               <num>εʹ</num>.<lb/>
               <choice><sic>Θάρσι</sic><corr>Θάρσει</corr></choice>, <choice><sic>οὐδὶς</sic><corr>οὐδεὶς</corr></choice> ἀ<lb break="no"/>θάνατος.</p>
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            <p>One (is) the God. Monument of Eudoxios, (son) of Selamanos, who died having a
                    good name (at the age) of 46 years, in (the) year 336, on (the) 13th (day) of
                    (the) month Xanthikos, on the 5th day of (the) Lord (Thursday). Be of good
                    cheer, no one (is) immortal.</p>
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            <p>The inscription provides the date as the 5th day of the Lord (Thursday), the 13th day of the month Xanthikos in the year 336 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, April 3, 441 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 curved at the top, broken at the lower left and right corners, and chipped all around its edges. Written predominantly in round script with the exception of one square omicron in line ten, the text is engraved upon a smoothed surface. Salt crystals have accumulated in the upper left and lower right corners. Lines three, six, and nine are thoroughly painted over in red, while lines two, five, and eight preserve only traces of red paint. Lines one, four, seven, and ten are painted green. The inscription is surrounded by a frame, the horizontal lines of which are heavily painted red, while the vertical lines only preserve traces of red. A big, incised outlined cross appears in the middle of the top line of the frame. The horizontal bar of the cross is filled with red paint and the vertical bar with green. In line six of the text, the units figure of the age numeral has been engraved as a zeta, but painted over as a sigma. A horizontal bar appears above the age numeral in that same line, as well as the year numeral in line seven, the month day numeral in line eight, and the abbreviation of Κυρίου in line eight. The text contains both spelling and grammatical errors. The editor notes that the abbreviation of μηνός in line seven of the text is rare, consisting of an eta above a mu, followed by a nu and an S sign.</p>
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