Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. October 8, 444 CE. Purple sandstone tombstone. Epitaph.

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Frame Around the text October 8, 444 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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 Creation Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Πέτρου Γαλαέου, ἀποθανόντος ἐτῶν κζʹ, ἐν μηνὶ ὙπερβερετέουὙπερβερεταίου ακʹ, τοῦ ἔτους τλθʹ, ἡμήρᾳἡμέρᾳ Κυρίου βʹ. ΘάρσιΘάρσει, οὐδὶςοὐδεὶς ἀθάνατος.

Monument of Petros, (son) of Galaeos, who died (at the age) of 27 years, on (the) 21st (day) of the month Hyperberetaios, in the year 339, on (the) 2nd day of (the) Lord (Monday). Be of good cheer, no one (is) immortal.

ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Πέτρου Γαλαέου, ἀποθανόντος ἐτῶν κζʹ ἐν μηνὶ ὙπερβερετέουὙπερβερεταίου ακʹ τοῦ ἔτους τλθʹ ἡμήρᾳἡμέρᾳ Κυρίου βʹ ΘάρσιΘάρσει, οὐδὶςοὐδεὶς ἀθάνατος.

The inscription provides the date as the 2nd day of the Lord (Monday), the 21st day of the month Hyperberetaios in the year 339 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, October 8, 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 rectangular tombstone is broken in several places on the right side. Written in predominantly round script with a few square exceptions in lines one and two, the text is engraved upon a smoothed surface. The inscription is painted over in red. The text is surrounded by incised lines on the right and right upper sides, while the remaining sides are surrounded by a red-painted frame. A horizontal bar appears above the age numeral in line three and the weekday numeral in line seven, while a horizontal stroke appears above the inverted month day numeral in line five. The text contains both spelling and grammatical errors. The editor notes that this is the first attestation of the personal name Γαλαέος in Ghor es-Safi, as well as in the rest Palestine and Arabia. The first alpha in the name Γαλαέου appears to have been engraved as an epsilon which was then corrected.

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