Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Zoor 0377

Zoora, 9 August (?) 444 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph)

White sandstone with a diagonal flat purple stripe, rectangular in shape, rounded at the right side and at the bottom

The inscribed surface is flaked off in the middle of the right side

Round alphabet with a few square exceptions. The letters are of good workmanship, symmetrical, carefully cut and aligned

Six pointed star inscribed in a circle and flanked by two deeply engraved flat crosses with triangulated serifs (only the left one is clearly visible) Above the epitaph, in the centre A cross formed of two intersecting rectangular bars filled with chi-signs Below the inscription Two schematically depicted heraldic birds with crest Flanking the cross below the inscription Traces of red paint On both the symbolic decorations and the text 9 August (?) 444 CE Negev Zoora An-naq' Cemetery

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

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

+ + ΜνημεῖονΜνημῖον Ὀλέφου ΚρήσκεντοςΧρήσκου, ἀποθανόντοςμετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος καὶκαλῆς πίστεως ἐτῶν ν, ἐν ἔτειἔτι τλθ, μηνὸς Λώου κα, ἡμέρᾳ Κυρίου δ θάρσιΘάρσι, οὑδεὶςοὑδὶς ἀθάνατος. +

Monument of Olefos, (son) of Chreskes (Crescens), who died having a good name and good faith (at the age) of 50 years, in the year 339, on the 21st (day) of the month [Loos?], on the 4th day of (the) Lord (Wednesday). Be of good cheer, no one (is) immortal.

Μνημῖον Ὀλέφου Κρήσκεντος ἀποθανόντος μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος καὶ καλῆς πίστεως ἐτῶν ν ἐν ἔτι τλθ μηνὸς Λώου κα ἡμέρᾳ Κυρίου δ Θάρσι οὑδὶς ἀθάνατος.

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