Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Zoor 0373

Zoora, 1 February 428 CE (?). Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

Rectangular in shape.

37 19 13

Broken at the upper right and lower left corners.

The text is placed within guide-lines and surrounded by a frame

0.5 - 1 in text A; 0.7 - 1.8 in text B. The letters of the original inscription are superficially cut in square script, while the later text is deeply but clumsily engraved.

 Frame Around the inscription Red painted cross with a chi sign in its center, flanked by two red painted crosses, the right one within a circle Below the frame Red painted bird Below the frame, at the right end Traces of a zigzag decoration On the right side of the original frame Traces of a sun-disc Above the later inscription 1 February 428 CE (?) Negev Zoora Safi

Department of Antiquities at Safi

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

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

Μνημῖονμνημεῖον ΗέτροςΠέτρου οτιο, στουςἔτους τκβ βερετίουΠεριτίου ζι Οάρσιςθάρσει οὐδεὶς ἀθάνοταςἀθάνατος.

ας ἐτῶν Θάρσιθάρσει, οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος. + + + +

Text B: Monument of Petros … [who died?] in the year 322(?) on the 17th (day) of Peritios (?). Be of good cheer, no one (is) immortal. He died Text A: … years old. Be of good cheer, no one (is) immortal.

This inscription bears two separate texts. The final three lines are the oldest ones. The text extended above the original probably belongs to a later period and has been carved by someone unfamilar with the Greek language who simply copied letters and words unsuccessfully.

Μνημῖον Ηέτρος οτιο ἔτους τκβ βερετίου ζι Οάρσις οὐδεὶς ἀθάνοτας

24