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<title>Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine</title>
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<resp>Prinicipal Investigator</resp>
<persName xml:id="MS">Michael Satlow</persName>
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<p>Zoora, April 25, 454 CE. Tombstone. Epitaph.</p>
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<p>Purple sandstone</p>
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<p>Chipped on the three sides, except for the left one. The inscribed
part is flaked off in the upper part with loss of text and it has not
been properly smoothed</p>
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<p>The inscription is enclosed within a rectangular frame and set between
guide-lines. The script is a mixture of round and square alphabets.
The letters, of variable size, are rather well carved and aligned</p>
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<locus>Surrounding the text</locus>
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<ab>Guide-lines</ab>
<locus>Set within the text</locus>
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<ab>Cross</ab>
<locus>Flanking the first line, ending lines 6 and 10 (see note)</locus>
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<date period="http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p0m63njjcn4" notBefore="0454" notAfter="0454">April 25, 454 CE</date>
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<region>Negev</region>
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<geogName type="site">An Naq</geogName>
<geogFeat type="locus">Cemetery</geogFeat>
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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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<placeName>Department of Antiquities of Jordan</placeName>
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<change when="2012-01-25" who="persons.xml#Kerry_Sonia">Creation</change>
<change when="2016-12-14" who="persons.xml#Elli_Mylonas">Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames</change>
<change when="2017-06-20" who="Gaia Lembi">Edited metadata; corrected encoding</change>
<change when="2019-01-29" who="persons.xml#Elli_Mylonas">
adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.
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<p><g ref="cross">+</g>
<unclear>Εἷς</unclear>
<unclear>Θεὀς</unclear>. <g ref="cross">+</g>
<lb/>
<choice><orig>Μνημῖον</orig><reg>Μνημεῖον</reg></choice>
<lb/>
<choice><orig>Ἀννιονοῦ</orig><reg>Ἀννιανοῦ</reg></choice>
<lb/> Φίδωνος,<lb/> ἀποθανόν<lb break="no"/>τος μετὰ <g ref="cross">+</g>
<lb/>
<expan><abbr>καλ<am>ϛ</am></abbr><ex>οῦ</ex></expan>
<expan><abbr>ὀνό<unclear>μα</unclear>τ<am>ϛ</am></abbr><ex>ος</ex></expan>
<lb/> ἐτῶν <num>ξεʹ</num>, ἐν <expan><abbr>μη</abbr><ex>νὶ</ex></expan> Ἀρτεμησίου
<num>εʹ</num>,<lb/> ἐν <choice><orig>ἔτι</orig><reg>ἔτει</reg></choice>
<num>τμθʹ</num>. <g ref="cross">+</g></p>
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<p>One (is) the God. Monument of Annionos (Annianus), (son) of Pheidon, who died
having a good name (at the age) of 65 years, on (the) 5th (day) of (the) month
Artemisios, in the year 349.</p>
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<div type="edition" subtype="transcription_segmented" change="c2021-06-16"><p> <w xml:id="zoor0199-1" xml:lang="grc"><unclear>Εἷς</unclear></w> <w xml:id="zoor0199-2" xml:lang="grc"><unclear>Θεὀς</unclear>.</w> <orig xml:id="zoor0199-3" xml:lang="grc">Μνημῖον</orig> <orig xml:id="zoor0199-4" xml:lang="grc">Ἀννιονοῦ</orig> <w xml:id="zoor0199-5" xml:lang="grc">Φίδωνος,</w> <w xml:id="zoor0199-6" xml:lang="grc">ἀποθανόντος</w> <w xml:id="zoor0199-7" xml:lang="grc">μετὰ</w> <w xml:id="zoor0199-8" xml:lang="grc"><expan><abbr>καλ<am>ϛ</am></abbr><ex>οῦ</ex></expan></w> <w xml:id="zoor0199-9" xml:lang="grc"><expan><abbr>ὀνό<unclear>μα</unclear>τ<am>ϛ</am></abbr><ex>ος</ex></expan></w> <w xml:id="zoor0199-10" xml:lang="grc">ἐτῶν</w> <num xml:id="zoor0199-11" xml:lang="grc">ξεʹ</num> <w xml:id="zoor0199-12" xml:lang="grc">ἐν</w> <w xml:id="zoor0199-13" xml:lang="grc"><expan><abbr>μη</abbr><ex>νὶ</ex></expan></w> <w xml:id="zoor0199-14" xml:lang="grc">Ἀρτεμησίου</w> <num xml:id="zoor0199-15" xml:lang="grc">εʹ</num> <w xml:id="zoor0199-16" xml:lang="grc">ἐν</w> <orig xml:id="zoor0199-17" xml:lang="grc">ἔτι</orig> <num xml:id="zoor0199-18" xml:lang="grc">τμθʹ</num> </p>
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<p>The inscription provides the date as the 5th of the month Artemisios, in the year 349
according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, April 25, 454 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 first line
is flanked by a cross on each side. Line six also ends in a cross. Line ten probably
ended with a cross originally, but it is barely discernible. A wavy horizontal line
appears above the age numeral in line eight, and a horizontal bar appears above the
month day numeral in line nine. The text contains both spelling and grammatical
errors. The author suggests that the name Φίδωνος might be a form of either the Greek
Φείδων or the Hellinized Latin Φίδος.</p>
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