Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Zoora. November 17 - December 16, second half of fifth century CE. White sandstone tombstone. Epitaph.

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Guide-lines Within text November 17 - December 16, second half of fifth century 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 joining adjacent supplied elements adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

ἐτῶν δεκα εννέα ἔτους μηνὸς Ἀπελλἐου ἠμέρᾳ Κυρίου Κυριακῇ. ΘάρσιΘάρσει, οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος.

... (at the age) of nineteen (?) years, in (the) year..., on (the).. (day) of (the) month Apellaios, on (the) day of (the) Lord, Sunday. [Be of good cheer], no one (is) [immortal].

ἐτῶν δεκα εννέα ἔτους μηνὸς Ἀπελλἐου ἠμέρᾳ Κυρίου Κυριακῇ. ΘάρσιΘάρσει, οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος.

The text records the date as the month of Apellaios, coresponding to November 17 – December 16. The inscription has further been dated to the second half of the fifth 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. Only the lower half of the tombstone is preserved. The text is set between engraved guide-lines. The text and guide-lines are engraved. The author notes that approximately 5 lines seem to be missing from the beginning of the inscription.

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