Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Zoor 0367

Zoora, 18 October 390 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

Brownish sandstone

35 24 7

Rectangular in shape, broken at the upper corners and rounded at the bottom.

The front surface, which has been smoothed, is flaked off at the upper left corner.

Round alphabet. The letters, bigger and more widely spaced in the first seven lines, are carefully executed and aligned.

Double incised linear frame On the right and partially on the left side of the inscription Red paint Over lettering Slightly incised double guide-lines Discernible throughout the text. 18 October 390 CE Negev Zoora An-naq' Cemetery

Office of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan in Safi

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

Μνημῖονμνημεῖον ἌνναἌννης ΠιθολάουΠειθολάου, τελευτησάσης μετᾶ καλοῦ ὀνόματος ἐτῶνπεντήκονταπέντε, ἔτους σπε μηνὸς Δίου πρώτῃ. Θάρσιθάρσει, οὺδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος. Ἡμέρᾳ Ἡλίου.

Monument of Anna, (daughter) of P(e)itholaos, who died having a good name (at the age) of fifty-five years, in (the) year 285, on the first (day) of (the) month Dios. Be of good cheer, no one (is) immortal. (She died) on the day of (the) Sun (Sunday).

Μνημῖον Ἄννα Πιθολάου τελευτησάσης μετᾶ καλοῦ ὀνόματος ἐτῶν πεντήκοντα πέντε, ἔτους σπε μηνὸς Δίου πρώτῃ. Θάρσι οὺδὶς ἀθάνατος. Ἡμέρᾳ Ἡλίου.

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