Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Zoora, May 17, 498 CE. Tombstone. Epitaph.

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White and purple sandstone

Rectangular stone, curved in the corners except for the upper right one

The smoothed inscribed surface is chipped all around. Square script with a few round exceptions. The letters are elongated, well cut and aligned

 May 17, 498 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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Εἶς θεός, ἁὁ πάντων Δεσπότης. ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Μοσσαλέμου Ἐπιφανίου, ἀπαθανούντοςἀποθανόντος μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος καὶ καλῆς πίστεως ἐτῶν κεʹ, ἐν ἔτιἔτει τϟγʹ, μηνὸς ἈρτημεσίουἈρτεμισίου κζʹ, ἡμέρᾳ ζʹ. Θάρσει, οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος.

One (is) the God, the Lord of all. Monument of Mosalemos, (son) of Epiphanios, who died having a good name and good faith (at the age) of 25 years, in (the) year 393, on (the) 27th (day) of (the) month Artemisios, on (the) 7th day (Saturday). Be of good cheer, no one (is) immortal.

Εἶς θεός, ἁὁ πάντων Δεσπότης. ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Μοσσαλέμου Ἐπιφανίου, ἀπαθανούντοςἀποθανόντος μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος καὶ καλῆς πίστεως ἐτῶν κεʹ ἐν ἔτιἔτει τϟγʹ μηνὸς ἈρτημεσίουἈρτεμισίου κζʹ ἡμέρᾳ ζʹ Θάρσει, οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος.

The inscription provides the date as the 7th day (Saturday), on the 27th day of the month of Artemisios, in the year 393, according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is October 22, 495 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 author notes that Μοσάλεμος is a Hellenization of the Arabic Musalim, from the root slm, "to be peaceful", while the name Ἐπιφάνιος is a Greek name first attested in the fourth century BCE.

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