Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Zoora, 28 April 405 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

White Sandstone, almost rectangular in shape, wider at the top.

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The inscribed surface, weathered at places, is flaked off at the right side and bears salt crystals on the left and the lower sides.

Small round letters which become progressively bigger, especially towards the end.

 28 April 405 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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ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον ΕὐσταθίαΕὐσταθίας Μεγεθίου, παυσαμένηπαυσαμένης μετὰ καλοῦ ἀνόματοςὀνόματος καὶ καλῆς πίστεως ἐτῶν νε, ἔτους τ, μηνὸς Ἀρτεμισίου η, ἡμέρᾳ Κυρίου α. ΘάρσιΘάρσει, οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος.

Monument of Eustathia, (daughter) of Megethios, who died having a good name and good faith (at the age) of 55 years, in (the) year 300, on (the) 8th (day) of (the) month Artemisios, on (the) 1st day of (the) Lord (Sunday). Be of good cheer, no one (is) immortal.

Μνημῖον Εὐσταθία Μεγεθίου, παυσαμένη μετὰ καλοῦ ἀνόματος καὶ καλῆς πίστεως ἐτῶν νε ἔτους τ μηνὸς Ἀρτεμισίου η ἡμέρᾳ Κυρίου α Θάρσι οὐδὶς ἀθάνατος.

The inscription records the date as the 1st day of the Lord (Sunday), the 8th day of the month Artemisios, in the year 300 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, April 28, 405 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.

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