Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 zoor0361 Zoor 0361

Zoora, 22 March 452 CE - 21 March 453 CE. Tombstone. Invocation.

White sandstone, almost rectangular in shape

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The inscribed surface bears traces of fire at the upper right corner

The text is set around a large cross

Text deeply engraved in round-oval script. The letters are of variable size, big in the first three lines and much smaller in the right part of the fourth line, obviously due to lack of room in this area

 Large deeply engraved cross with triangular bars At the centre of the block Cross Beginning of the first line Cross End of second line Cross At the end of last line 22 March 452 CE - 21 March 453 CE Negev Zoora Khirbet Sheikh 'Isa

Encased in second use in one of the structures of a later period discovered in this area.

 Unknown, since a day after its discovery the block was stolen

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

+ Κύριε ὁὡ Θεὸς ἠμῶν βο+ήθησονβο+έθησον τὸν τμζ´ δοῦλονδοῦλων ΘεόδορωνΘεώδορων. +

Lord our God, help (Your) servant Theodoros.(It was written in) 347?

Κύριε ὡ Θεὸς ἠμῶν βο+ήθησονβο+έθησον τὸν τμζ´ δοῦλων Θεώδορων

The letters τμζ´ are found in between lines 3 and 4, and at first they seem irrelevant to the rest of the text. If they didn't form part of an earlier inscription, however, they may represent the date on which the invocation was laid: the converted date would be 452/3 CE, a period compatible with both the lettering and the abbreviation methods used in the inscription.

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