Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Zoor 0379

Zoora, 9 July 462 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

Yellow sandstone with purple stains, almost square in shape

Odd lines are additionally decorated with red paint. Angular alphabet with nice, symmetrical letters (except for ll. 11-13) professionally executed and aligned

Red painted wreath in the form of a double outlined circle filled with linear pattern, with traces of a red painted outlined cross In the central area, above the upper frame line 9 July 462 CE Negev Zoora An-naq' Cemetery

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

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

Εἷς, Θεός, ὁ πάντωνΔεσπότης. ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Μακρίνου ἈλαφάλουἈλαφάλλου, τελευτήσαντος μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματοςκαὶ καλῆς πίστεως ἐτῶν λε, ἐν ἔτιἔτι τνζ, πεντεκαιδεκάτης ἰνδικτιῶνος, ἐν μηνὶ ΠανέμουΠανήμῳ εἰκοστῇ, ἐν ἡμέρᾳΚυριακῇ. Θάρσει, Μακρῖνε, οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος.

One (is) the God, the Lord of all. Monument of Macrinus, son of Alaphallas, who died having a good name and good faith (at the age) of 35 years, in the year 357, in the fifteenth indiction, on the twentieth (day) of the month Panemos, on Sunday. Be of good cheer, Macrinus, no one (is) immortal.

Εἷς, Θεός, ὁ πάντων Δεσπότης. ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον Μακρίνου ἈλαφάλουἈλαφάλλου, τελευτήσαντος μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος καὶ καλῆς πίστεως ἐτῶν λε ἐν ἔτιἔτι τνζ πεντεκαιδεκάτης ἰνδικτιῶνος, ἐν μηνὶ ΠανέμουΠανήμῳ εἰκοστῇ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ Κυριακῇ. Θάρσει, Μακρῖνε, οὐδὶςοὐδείς ἀθάνατος.

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