Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Zoor 0374

Zoora, 13 May 432 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

Yellowish sandstone, rectangular in shape with rounded corners

The stone is chipped especially on the left and upper sides. The inscribed surface is slightly weathered at places.

The text is placed between deeply incised guide-lines and surrounded by a frame

Traces of red colour in lines 1, 3, 6, 7, 8 and 9. Square script with a few round exceptions and a characteristic cursive alpha. The letters become smaller in the last lines

 Deeply but coarsely engraved rectangular frame, vaulted at the top Around the inscription 13 May 432 CE Negev Zoora

The stone was confiscated by the Department of Antiquities of Jordan.

 Department of Antiquities of Jordan store house

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

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

Μνημῖονμνημεῖον ΓερμανὸςΓερμανοῦΜάρσου,ἀποθανόντος ἐτῶν κε ἔτους τκζ, ἐν μηνὶ ἈρτεμεσίουἈρτεμισίῳ + κγ, ἡμέρᾳ Κυρίου ς.

Monument of Germanus, (son) of Marsos, who died (at the age) of 25 years, (in the) year 327, on the 23rd (day) of the month Artemisios, on the 6th day of (the) Lord (Friday).

This is one of the few cases, among the inscription of Zoora, in which the letter comprising the year are splitted between two lines, likely due to miscalculation of the available writing space.

Μνημῖον Γερμανὸς ἀποθανόντος ἐτῶν κε ἔτους τκζ ἐν μηνὶ Ἀρτεμεσίου κγ ἡμέρᾳ Κυρίου ς

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