Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. Second half of fourth century CE. Purple and yellow sandstone tombstone. Epitaph.

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Semi-circle Around age numeral Second half of fourth 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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 Creation Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον ἸόληφοςἸολήφου Μάρου, ἠτῶν γʹ.

Monument of Iolefos, (son) of Maron, (who died at the age) of 3 years.

ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον ἸόληφοςἸολήφου Μάρου, ἠτῶν γʹ

No date is recorded in the text, but the inscription 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 nearly rectangular. The inscribed face has been weathered. The text is engraved. The author suggests that the name is likely a form of the name Ὄλεφος,, which is attested elsewhere at Ghor es-Safi. The name Μάρος, in contrast, is not found elsewhere at Ghor es-Safi. The age numeral in line 5 is surrounded by a semi-circle figure in its lower part.

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