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            <title>Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine</title>
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                     <p>Negev. Zoora. September 30, 444 CE. Purple and yellowish sandstone tombstone. Epitaph.</p>
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                        <ab>Cross-rho</ab>
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                        <locus>Alternating with zigzags on each side of the frame</locus>
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                     <date period="http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p0m63njjcn4" notBefore="0444" notAfter="0444">September 30, 444 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>Εἷς Θεός. ἀμήν.<lb/>
               <choice><sic>Μνημῖον</sic><corr>Μνημεῖον</corr></choice> Θεοφί<lb break="no"/>λου Σιλανοῦ, ἀπο<lb break="no"/>θανόντος μετὰ<lb/>
               καλοῦ ὀνόματος<lb/> ἐ<unclear>τῶ</unclear>ν <num>μεʹ</num> ἐν
                     <expan><abbr>μη</abbr><ex>νὶ</ex></expan>
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               <choice><sic>Ὑπερβερετέου</sic><corr>Ὑπερβερεταίου</corr></choice>
               <num>ιγʹ</num>,<lb/> ἔτους <num>τλθʹ</num>, ἡμέρᾳ<lb/>
               <choice><sic><supplied reason="lost">Ε</supplied><unclear>αμ</unclear>βάτῳ</sic><corr>Σαββάτω</corr></choice>. <choice><sic>Θάρσι</sic><corr>Θάρσει</corr></choice>,<lb/> Θεόφιλε, <choice><sic>οὐδὶς</sic><corr>οὐδεὶς</corr></choice>
               <lb/> ἀ<unclear>θά</unclear>νατος.<lb/>
               <g ref="cross">+</g></p>
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            <p>One (is) the God, amen. Monument of Theophilos, (son) of Silanus, who died having
                    a good name (at the age) of 45 years, on (the) 13th day of the month
                    Hyperberetaios, in (the) year 339, on Saturday. Be of good cheer, Theophilos, no
                    one (is) immortal.</p>
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            <p>The inscription provides the date as Saturday, the 13th day of the month Hyperberetaios in the year 339 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, September 30, 444 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 nearly rectangular tombstone is curved at the corners, chipped in the upper right section, and broken at the lower right side. Written in predominantly round script with a few square exceptions, the text is engraved upon a smoothed surface, which is weathered in the lower section and has an accumulation of salt crystals. Lines two, five, eight, and eleven are painted over in red. The inscription is framed on its left and write by vertical zigzag lines. Red-painted dots appear on both sides of the zigzag lines. An engraved, red-painted cross-rho figure is centered above the text. An outlined cross with an incised, red-painted chi in its center appears below the inscription. Three serpentine motifs appear before the age numeral in line six. A horizontal bar appears above the month day numeral in line seven. The text contains both spelling and grammatical errors.</p>
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