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<title>Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine</title>
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<resp xml:id="MS">Creator</resp>
<name>Michael Satlow</name>
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<authority>Brown University</authority>
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<idno type="IIP">Zoor 0373</idno>
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<msItem class="#funerary.epitaph" ana="#christian">
<p>Zoora, 1 February 428 CE (?). Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).</p>
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<objectDesc ana="#tombstone">
<supportDesc ana="#limestone">
<support>
<p>Rectangular in shape.</p>
<dimensions type="surface" unit="cm">
<height>37</height>
<width>19</width>
<depth>13</depth>
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</support>
<condition ana="#complete.broken">
<p>Broken at the upper right and lower left corners. </p>
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<layout columns="1" writtenLines="10">
<p>The text is placed within guide-lines and surrounded by a
frame</p>
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<handNote ana="#impressed.inscribed">
<dimensions type="letter" extent="height" unit="cm" atLeast="0.5" atMost="1.8"/>
<p>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.</p>
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<decoNote>
<ab>Frame</ab>
<locus>Around the inscription</locus>
</decoNote>
<decoNote>
<ab>Red painted cross with a chi sign in its center, flanked by two
red painted crosses, the right one within a circle</ab>
<locus>Below the frame</locus>
</decoNote>
<decoNote>
<ab>Red painted bird</ab>
<locus>Below the frame, at the right end</locus>
</decoNote>
<decoNote>
<ab>Traces of a zigzag decoration</ab>
<locus>On the right side of the original frame</locus>
</decoNote>
<decoNote>
<ab>Traces of a sun-disc</ab>
<locus>Above the later inscription</locus>
</decoNote>
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<summary>
<rs/>
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<origin>
<date period="http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p0m63njjcn4" notBefore="0428" notAfter="0428">1 February 428 CE (?)</date>
<placeName>
<region>Negev</region>
<settlement ref="http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697768">Zoora</settlement>
<geogName type="site">Safi</geogName>
<geogFeat type="locus"/>
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<p/>
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<provenance>
<placeName>Department of Antiquities at Safi</placeName>
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<change when="2017-10-18" who="Sabrina Whitfill">Initial Entry</change>
<change when="2017-12-18" who="Gaia Lembi">Edited</change>
<change when="2019-01-29" who="persons.xml#Elli_Mylonas">
adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.
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<p/>
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<div type="edition" subtype="transcription" ana="b1">
<div type="textpart" subtype="text" n="b">
<p><choice><orig>Μνημῖον</orig><reg>μνημεῖον</reg></choice>
<lb/>
<choice><orig>Ηέτρος</orig><reg>Πέτρου</reg></choice>
<orig>οτιο</orig>,<lb/>
<choice><orig>στους</orig><reg>ἔτους</reg></choice>
<num value="322"><unclear>τ</unclear>κ<unclear>β</unclear></num>
<lb/>
<choice><orig>βερετίου</orig><reg>Περιτίου</reg></choice>
<num value="17">ζι</num>
<lb/>
<choice><orig>Οάρσις</orig><reg>θάρσει</reg></choice>
<expan><abbr>οὐ</abbr><ex>δεὶς</ex></expan>
<choice><orig>ἀθάνοτα<supplied reason="omitted">ς</supplied></orig><reg>ἀθάνατος</reg></choice>.</p>
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<p><orig><unclear>ας</unclear></orig>
<unclear cert="low">ἐτῶν</unclear>
<lb/>
<choice><orig><unclear>Θ</unclear>άρσι</orig><reg>θάρσει</reg></choice>, <choice><orig><unclear>οὐδὶς</unclear></orig><reg>οὐδείς</reg></choice>
<unclear>ἀ</unclear><lb break="no"/><unclear>θάνατος</unclear>. <g ref="cross">+</g>
<lb/>
<g ref="cross">+</g>
<g ref="cross">+</g>
<g ref="cross">+</g>
<g ref="bird"/></p>
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<p>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<lb/> Text A: … years old. Be of good
cheer, no one (is) immortal.</p>
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<div type="commentary" ana="b1">
<p>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.</p>
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