Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Zoora, January 11, 443 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

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Yellowish sandstone with purple stripes

The stone, originally rectangular in shape, is broken at the corners and chipped all around

The inscribed surface has been smoothed in the middle and is unwrought at the edges

 Frame Surrounding the text Cross One centered above the text and one at the end of line nine Two naively incised birds Flanking the upper cross, painted in red colour January 11, 443 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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+ ΜνιημῖονΜνημεῖον Μάγϛνου Ἀλφίου, ἀναπαυσαμένου μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος ἐτῶν λςʹ, ἔτους τλζʹ, ἐν μηνὶ ΑὐδυναίῳΑὐδανέῳ κςʹ, ἡμέρᾳ βʹ. ΘάρσιΘάρσει, οὐδὶςοὐδεὶς ἀθάνατος. +

Monument of Magnus, (son) of Alphios, who (came to rest) having a good name (at the age) of 36 years, in (the) year 337, on (the) 26th (day) of the month Audynaios, on (the) 2nd day (Monday). Be of good cheer, no one (is) immortal.

ΜνιημῖονΜνημεῖον Μάγϛνου Ἀλφίου, ἀναπαυσαμένου μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος ἐτῶν λςʹ ἔτους τλζʹ ἐν μηνὶ Αὐδανέῳ κςʹ ἡμέρᾳ βʹ ΘάρσιΘάρσει, οὐδὶςοὐδεὶς ἀθάνατος.

The inscription provides the date as the 2nd day (Monday), the 26th day of the month Audynaios in the year 337 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, January 11, 443 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. A horizontal bar appears above the age and year numerals in line six, the abbreviation of the word μηνί in line seven, as well as the units figure of the month day and weekday numerals in line eight. The theta in the word Θάρσι [sic] in the eighth line of text is missing its cross bar. The text contains both spelling and grammatical errors. The name of the deceased, Magnus, is otherwise unattested at Ghor es-Safi, though it appears frequently in Late Roman Hauran.

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