Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Zoora, April 19, (?) 576 CE. Tombstone. Epitaph.

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White sandstone

Almost squared in shape, chipped in the lower right corner

The inscribed surface is weathed. Round script, with some square exceptions

 Cross One above text, one at the beginning of the first line of text April 19, (?) 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 Δεσπϛότης. Ἐνθάδε κῖτεκεῖται ἡ μακαρία Ἀριάνθης Θεοδώρου, ζήσασα ἔτη καʹ, τελευτήσασα μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος καὶ καλῆς ὁμολογίας ἡμέρᾳ Κυρίου αʹ μηνὸς ΞαθικουΞανθικοῦ κθʹ, ἰνδικτιῶνος ιʹ, τοῦ ἔτους υοαʹ. ΘάρσιΘάρσει, οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος.

One (is) the God, the Lord of all. Here lies the blessed Arianthe, (daughter) of Theodoros, who lived 21 years and died having a good name and good faith on the 1st day of (the) Lord (Sunday), on the 29th (day) of the month Xanthikos, in the 10th indiction, in the year 471. Be of good cheer, no one (is) immortal.

Εἶς θεός, ὁ πάντων Δεσπϛότης. Ἐνθάδε κῖτε ἡ μακαρία Ἀριάνθης Θεοδώρου, ζήσασα ἔτη καʹ τελευτήσασα μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος καὶ καλῆς ὁμολογίας ἡμέρᾳ Κυρίου αʹ μηνὸς Ξαθικου κθʹ ἰνδικτιῶνος ιʹ τοῦ ἔτους υοαʹ Θάρσι οὐδὶς ἀθάνατος.

The author notes that there is a discrepancy between era, year and date, but suggests that it may be restored as the 1st day of the Lord (Sunday), the 29th day of the month Xanthikos, in the 10th indiction, in the year 471 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, April 19, 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 points out that the Greek name Ἀριάνθη, which means “flowery”, is rare. She also observes that the use of the phrase “καλῆς ὁμολογίας” is used here to replace the “καλῆς πίστεως” usually found at Ghor es-Safi.

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