Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Zoora, 16 May 511 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

White sandstone, rectangular in shape, chipped all around

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The inscribed surface is flaked off in the middle of the area covered by ll. 1-5, with subsequent loss of text. A weathering at the bottom of the surface caused additional obliteration of a few letters in the last line

Mixed square and round script. The letters, bigger towards the end, are well executed and aligned

 Two crosses At the beginning of the first line of text Left half of an incised palm branch Lower left margin of the inscription 16 May 511 CE Negev Zoora An-Naq' Cemetery

Department of Antiquities of Jordan

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

+ + Εἷς Θεός, ὀ πάντων Δεσπότης.Ἐνθάδε κεῖτε Μαρία Πέτρου,ζήσασα ἔτη ογ μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος, ἀποθανοῦσα μηνὶ ἈρτεμεσίουἈρτεμισίῳ ςκ, ἰνδικτιῶνος πέμπτης, υς. ΕὐμοίριΕὐμοίρει, οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος.

One (is) the God, the Lord of all. Here lies Maria(?), (daughter) of Petros(?), who lived 73(?) years having a good name, and died on (the) 26th (day) of (the) month Artemisios, in (the) fifth indiction, (in the year) 406. Have a good fortune, no one (is) immortal.

Εἷς Θεός, ὀ πάντων Δεσπότης. Ἐνθάδε κεῖτε Μαρία Πέτρου, ζήσασα ἔτη ογ μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος, ἀποθανοῦσα μηνὶ ἈρτεμεσίουἈρτεμισίῳ ςκ ἰνδικτιῶνος πέμπτης, υς ΕὐμοίριΕὐμοίρει, οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος.

The inscription gives the date as the 26th day of the month Artemisios, in the fifth indiction, in the year 406 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is May 16, 511 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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