Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. May 24, 461 CE. Purple sandstone tombstone. Epitaph.

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Frame Around inscription and bottom image Cross Above and below text. Three also end the last line of text. Bird Flanking crosses above and below text Chi Within crosses above and below inscription Dots Four, within crosses above and below inscription Guide lines Between lines of text May 24, 461 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.

+ ΜημῖονΜνημεῖον Κύρα Ὀβόδου, ἀποθανοῦσαἀποθανούσης μετμετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος ετῶν λεʹ ἐν ἒτιἔτει τνςʹ, μηνὸς Ξανθικοῦ γʹ, ἠμέρᾳ κυρίου ςʹ. θάρσιθάρσει οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθανατος. + + + +

Monument of Kyra, (daughter) of Obodas, who died having a good name (at the age) of 35 years, in the year 356, on (the) 3rd (day) of (the) month Xanthikos, on (the) 6th day of (the) Lord (Friday). Be of good cheer, no one (is) immortal.

ΜημῖονΜνημεῖον Κύρα Ὀβόδου, ἀποθανοῦσαἀποθανούσης μετμετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος ετῶν λεʹ ἐν ἒτιἔτει τνςʹ μηνὸς Ξανθικοῦ γʹ ἠμέρᾳ κυρίου ςʹ θάρσιθάρσει οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθανατος.

The inscription provides the date as the 6th day of the Lord (Friday), the 3rd day of the month Xanthikos, in the year 356 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is March 24, 461 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 relatively rectangular, and chipped all around. The inscribed surface for the text has been left unsmoothed in the lower part. An outlined cross filled with chi-signs and with four dots in its corners is below the text, with two heraldic birds flanking it, all in red paint. A similar image also appears above the text. The text and bottom scene are enclosed within a frame. This frame is engraved and painted red on three sides, while the right side is only painted. The text is within engraved guide-lines, some of which are painted red. The script is both round and square, the letters fairly well cut and aligned. The author notes that the final alpha in the word μετά on the third line of text is unfinished.

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