Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. January 29, 456. White sandstone tombstone. Epitaph.

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Frame Surrounding the text Zigzag Below the text January 29, 456 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 Ἀλουφάθης Σιλανοῦ, ἀποθανοῦσα μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος καὶ καλῆς πίστεως ἐτῶν νʹ, ἒτους τνʹ, μηνὸς Περιτίου ιδʹ, ἡμέρα Κυρίου αʹ.

Monument of Aloufathe, (daughter) of Silanus, who died having a good name and good faith (at the age) of 50 years, in (the) year 350, on (the) 14th (day) of (the) month Peritios, on the [1st] day of (the) Lord (Sunday).

ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Ἀλουφάθης Σιλανοῦ, ἀποθανοῦσα μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος καὶ καλῆς πίστεως ἐτῶν νʹ ἒτους τνʹ μηνὸς Περιτίου ιδʹ ἡμέρα Κυρίου αʹ

The inscription provides the date as the day of the Lord (Sunday), the 14th day of the month Peritios in the year 350 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, January 29, 456 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 tombstone is irregular in shape and broken around its edges. The text, which is painted, has faded. A red painted zigzag line appears below the text. All of this is enclosed within a red painted rectangular frame. The script is a mixture of round and square characters. The author notes that feminine name Ἀλουφάθης occurs elsewhere at Ghor es-Safi and may be a variant form of Ὠλεφάθη. The restoration of the weekday numeral α in the final line was made on "chronological grounds".

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