Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora.Second half of fourth century CE. Brownish sandstone tombstone. Epitaph.

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Cross-rho Above inscription Cross One on each side of the cross-rho, one below text Second half of 4th century 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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Monument of Okeilos from Feinan.

ΜνημῖνΜνημεῖον Ὀκεύλου, ΦαινοισίΦαινουσίου.

No date is given ιn the inscription, but it has been dated to the second half of the fourth century CE on the strength of other factors. 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 in its right corners and chipped. The inscribed surface has been smoothed to two different levels, both inscribed. On the lower right, remnants of an erased text can be seen. A cross-rho appears above the text. A simple cross is found on each side of the cross-rho, while another is centered below the text. The text and figures are all engraved. The author notes that this is the first attestation of the name Ὀκεύλος in Palestine and Arabia, and that it might be a verion of the Semitic Ὀκαλός.

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