Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Zoora, April 25, 454 CE. Tombstone. Epitaph.

 44.5 27.5 10

Purple sandstone

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

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

 Frame Surrounding the text Guide-lines Set within the text Cross Flanking the first line, ending lines 6 and 10 (see note) April 25, 454 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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+ Εἷς Θεὀς. + ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον ἈννιονοῦἈννιανοῦ Φίδωνος, ἀποθανόντος μετὰ + καλϛοῦ ὀνόματϛος ἐτῶν ξεʹ, ἐν μηνὶ Ἀρτεμησίου εʹ, ἐν ἔτιἔτει τμθʹ. +

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.

Εἷς Θεὀς. Μνημῖον Ἀννιονοῦ Φίδωνος, ἀποθανόντος μετὰ καλϛοῦ ὀνόματϛος ἐτῶν ξεʹ ἐν μηνὶ Ἀρτεμησίου εʹ ἐν ἔτι τμθʹ

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.

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