Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Zoora, March 22 - April 20, 576 CE. Tombstone. Epitaph.

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White sandstone

Originally rectangular in shape, curved at the upper right corner, broken on the lower left and right sides and chipped all around

The smoothed inscribed surface is flaked on the upper, left and lower sides and weathered. The text bears traces of red paint. Round script, with some square exceptions. Letters of variable size, elongated, fairly well cut and with an ascending alignement (except for l. 1, descending)

Cross At the beginning of line 1 Incised and red painted cross with serifs Centered below the inscription March 22 - April 20, 576 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, ὁ πάντων Δεσπότης. Ἐνθάδε κῖτεκεῖται Βίκτωρ Σιλουανοῦ, ζήσας ἐτῶν λεʹ, τελευτέσαςτελευτήσας ἐν μηνὶ Ξανθϛικῷ ἰνδικτιῶνος θʹ, τοῦ ἔτους υοαʹ. +

One (is) the God, the Lord of all. Here lies Victor, (son) of Silouanos (Silvanus), who lived 35 years, (and) died in the month of Xanthikos, in (the) 9th indiction, in the year 471.

Εἶς θεός, ὁ πάντων Δεσπότης. Ἐνθάδε κῖτε Βίκτωρ Σιλουανοῦ, ζήσας ἐτῶν λεʹ τελευτέσας ἐν μηνὶ Ξανθϛικῷ ἰνδικτιῶνος θʹ τοῦ ἔτους υοαʹ

The inscription records the date as the month Xanthikos, during the 9th indiction, in the year 471 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, giving a range of March 22 - April 20, 576 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 this inscription is the only known attestation of the name Βίκτωρ, Latin “Victor”, at Ghor es-Safi.

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