Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. January 31, 453 CE. White sandstone tombstone. Epitaph.

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Cross In the middle of line one Chi signs Within cross Zigzag pattern Framing the text on three sides January 31, 453 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.

Ἐν+θάδεἘνθάδε κεῖται Ἀβδοῦς, ζήσασα ἔτη οʹ, τελευτήσασα ἐν ἔτιἔτει τμζʹ, μηνὸς Περιτίου ιςʹ.

Here lies Abdous, who lived 70 years (and) died in the year 347 (?), on (the) 16th (day) of (the) [month] Peritios.

Ἐν+θάδεἘνθάδε κεῖται Ἀβδοῦς, ζήσασα ἔτη οʹ τελευτήσασα ἐν ἔτιἔτει τμζʹ μηνὸς Περιτίου ιςʹ

The inscription provides the date as the 16th of the month of Peritios, in the year 347 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, January 31, 453 CE. The year number is partially faded, making the dating of this inscription tentative. 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 tombstone is rectangular in shape. Written in square script, the text is engraved upon a smoothed surface, which is chipped on the left and lower left sides. All of the text is written over in red paint, which has faded. The text is surrounded on three sides by a red-painted zigzag pattern frame, which is curved in the upper corners. An outlined, red-painted cross filled with chi-signs and dots appears in the middle of the first line of text. A horizontal bar appears above the age numeral in line four and the month day numeral in line eight. The text contains both spelling and grammatical errors.

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