Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 zoor0354 Zoor 0354

Zoora, first quarter of 5th century CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

Yellowish sandstone

28.5 18 4.5

Only the upper part is preserved, chipped in the middle of the top

The text is set between double red-painted guide-lines

Remains of red colour. Round alphabet with small symmetrical letters, elegantly executed and carefully aligned

 Faint remains of a sun-disc, heavily outlined in red colour with red painted triangular rays around it In the middle of the area above the inscription Traces of vertical snakes drawn in red paint Left and right margins of the inscription Upper part of an incised frame Visible on the left side First quarter of 5th century 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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 Creation Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames Edited Edited adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

ΜνημεῖονΜνημῖον ἸωάννουἸωάνης Ἰσιδώρου, ἀποθανόντος μηνῶν δέκα

Monument of Ioannes (son) of Isidoros, who died ten months old............

Μνημῖον Ἰωάνης Ἰσιδώρου, ἀποθανόντος μηνῶν δέκα

Line 3: Delta and epsilon are weathered, but are not so unclear that they are illegible.

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