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            <title>Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine</title>
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                     <p>Negev. Zoora. August 12, 443 CE. Greenish sandstone tombstone. Epitaph.</p>
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                        <locus>Flanking the vase below the text</locus>
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                        <locus>Centered below the text</locus>
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                        <locus>Set within the text</locus>
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                     <date period="http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p0m63njjcn4" notBefore="0443" notAfter="0443">August 12, 443 CE</date>
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                     <p>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.</p>
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            <p><choice><sic>Μνημῖον</sic><corr>Μνημεῖον</corr></choice> Κύρα<lb/>
               <unclear>Θ</unclear>εοδώρου, ἀπ<unclear>ο</unclear><lb break="no"/><supplied reason="lost">θανο</supplied>ῦ<supplied reason="lost">σα</supplied>
               <unclear>μετὰ</unclear>
               <supplied reason="lost">καλοῦ</supplied>
               <supplied reason="lost">ὀνόματος</supplied>
               <lb/>
               <unclear>ἐτ</unclear>ῶν <num>ηʹ</num>, <unclear>ἔτο</unclear>υς
                     <num>τ<unclear>λ</unclear>ηʹ</num>, μηνὸς Λ<unclear>ῴο</unclear>υ
                  <num>δκʹ</num>,<lb/> ἡμέρᾳ Κυ<unclear>ρίου</unclear>
               <num>εʹ</num>.<lb/>
               <choice><sic>Θάρσι</sic><corr>Θάρσει</corr></choice>, <choice><sic>οὐδὶς</sic><corr>οὐδεὶς</corr></choice>
               <choice><sic>ἀθάν<lb break="no"/>αν<unclear>ατος</unclear></sic><corr>ἀθάνατος</corr></choice>.<lb/>
               <g ref="cross">+</g>
               <g ref="cross">+</g></p>
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            <p>Monument of Kyra, (daughter) of Theodoros, who died having [a good name] (at the
                    age) of 8 years, in (the) year 338, on (the) 24th (day) of (the) month Loos, 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 24th day of the month Loos in the year 338 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, August 12, 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. The originally rectangular tombstone is broken at the upper right and lower left and right corners, chipped all around its edges, and mended from two fragments. The text is engraved in a round alphabet upon a smoothed surface, which is badly damaged and has accumulations of salt crystals in the upper section. Lines one, three, five, seven, and nine are painted over in red. The inscription is surrounded by an engraved frame, which is also painted red. A vase with handles is centered below the frame and flanked by two outlined crosses with serifs. The editor notes that this vase resembles a censer if viewed upside down. All of these figures are engraved and painted red. Line three is badly weathered, and line four is entirely eroded. Two serpentine motifs flank the age numeral in line five and the year numeral in line six. Three such motifs flank the text of line ten. The month day numeral in line seven is inverted. The letters alpha and nu at the end of line nine are repeated at the beginning of line ten. The text contains both spelling and grammatical errors.</p>
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