Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Zoora, 7 May 459 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

Purple sandstone, almost oval in shape, pointed at the bottom.

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Angular script. The letters, bigger in the beginning and at the end of the text than in its middle, are mostly elongated and clearly cut, but not always strainght, especially in the first two lines.

Three sided frame with deeply incised lines Surrounds the inscription on the upper, left and right sides Faint traces of a red painted guide-line Below the third line 7 May 459 CE Negev Zoora An-Naq' Cemetery

Department of Antiquities of Jordan

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Creation Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames Edited Edited adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

Εἷς Θεὸς, ὁ πάντων Δεσπότης. ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Κύρας Καϊάμου, ἀποθανούσης μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος ἐτῶν λ, ἐν ἔτιἔτει τνδ, ἐνμηνὶ Ἀρτεμεσίου ζι, ἡμέρᾳ Κυρίου ε. Θάρσιθάρσει, οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος.

One (is) the God, the Lord of all. Monument of Kyra, (daughter) oF Kaiamos, who died having a good name (at the age) of 30 years, in the year 354, on (the) 17th (day) of (the) month Artemisios, on (the) 5th day of (the) Lord (Thursday). Be of good cheer, no one (is) immortal.

Εἷς Θεὸς, ὁ πάντων Δεσπότης. Μνημῖον Κύρας Καϊάμου, ἀποθανούσης μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος ἐτῶν λ ἐν ἔτι τνδ ἐν μηνὶ Ἀρτεμεσίου ζι ἡμέρᾳ Κυρίου ε Θάρσι οὐδὶς ἀθάνατος.

The inscription records the date as the 5th day of the Lord (Thursday), the 17th day of the month Artemisios, in the year 354 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is May 7, 459 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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