Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Zoor 0364

Zoora, 22 March 342 CE to 21 March 343 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

Whitish sandstone

51 27 11

Broken on the left and upper right sides. The front surface, nicely smoothed, is flaked off at the upper and lower left corners.

Round alphabet with the exception of a square ε in l. 6. The letters are carefully executed and aligned except for l. 5 which is ascending.

Large outlined cross with a small simple cross in its center Below inscription Red paint Over both the letters and the cross. 22 March 342 CE to 21 March 343 CE Negev Zoora An-naq' cemetery

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Initial Entry Edited adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

Μνημῖονμνημεῖον ἈντωνῖναἈντωνίνηςὈρίωνος, + ἀποθανοῦσαἀποθανούσης ἐτῶν ν,ἔτους σλζ. +

Monument of Antonina, (daughter) of Orion, who died (at the age) of 50 years, in (the) year 237.

This epitaph is the earliest of those collected at Ghor es-Safi which bears the symbol of the cross.

Μνημῖον ἈντωνῖναἈντωνίνης ἀποθανοῦσα ἐτῶν ν ἔτους σλζ

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