Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. August 19th-September 17th, 485 CE. Tombstone. Epitaph.

Reddish sandstone

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Cross Ending the last line of text August 19th - September 17th, 485 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. Edited metadata and corrected encoding

ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Σίλθα Κλαυδίου, ἀπαθανούσηςἀποθανούσης μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος καὶ καλῆς πίστεως ἐτῶν ξʹ, έν ἔτιἔτει τπʹ, μηνὶΓαρπιέουΓορπιαίου ἡμέρᾳ δʹ. ΘάρσιΘάρσει, οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος. +

Monument of Siltha, (daughter) of Claudius, who died having a good name and good faith (at the age) of 60 years, in (the) year 380, on (the).. (day) of (the) [month] Gorpiaios, on (the) 4th day (Wednesday). Be of good cheer, no one is immortal.

Μνημῖον Σίλθα Κλαυδίου, ἀπαθανούσης μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος καὶ καλῆς πίστεως ἐτῶν ξʹ έν ἔτι τπʹ Γαρπιέου ἡμέρᾳ δʹ Θάρσι οὐδὶς ἀθάνατος.

The inscription provides the date as the 4th day (Wednesday), in the month of Gorpiaios, in the year 380 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia. The day of the month has been lost, resulting in a range between August 19th - September 17th, 485 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 rectangular in shape, curved at the upper right and broken all along the left side and at the bottom, resulting in loss of text. The text is engraved, and lines 1 and 9 additionally preserve some red paint. A simple cross ends the last line of inscription. The text contains spelling and grammatical errors.

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