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<title>Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine</title>
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<resp>Prinicipal Investigator</resp>
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<p>Zoora, 7 May 459 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).</p>
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<p>Purple sandstone, almost oval in shape, pointed at the bottom.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<ab>Three sided frame with deeply incised lines</ab>
<locus>Surrounds the inscription on the upper, left and right sides</locus>
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<ab>Faint traces of a red painted guide-line</ab>
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origin/placenames</change>
<change when="2017-09-15" who="Sabrina Whitfill">Edited</change>
<change when="2018-02-07" who="Gaia Lembi">Edited</change>
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adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.
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<p>Εἷς Θεὸς, ὁ πάν<lb break="no"/>των Δεσπότης.<lb/>
<choice><orig>Μνημῖον</orig><reg>Μνημεῖον</reg></choice> Κύρας
<lb/>Καϊάμου, ἀποθα<lb break="no"/>νούσης μετὰ καλ<lb break="no"/>οῦ
ὀνόματος ἐτῶ<lb break="no"/>ν <num value="30">λ</num>, ἐν <choice><orig>ἔτι</orig><reg>ἔτει</reg></choice>
<num value="354">τνδ</num>, ἐν<lb/>μηνὶ Ἀρτεμεσίο<lb break="no"/>υ <num value="17">ζι</num>, ἡμέρᾳ <expan><abbr>Κυ</abbr><ex>ρίου</ex></expan>
<num value="5">ε</num>.<lb/>
<choice><orig>Θάρσι</orig><reg>θάρσει</reg></choice>, <choice><orig>οὐδὶς</orig><reg>οὐδείς</reg></choice>
<lb/>ἀθάνατος.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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