Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Zoor 0385

Zoora, 16 January 577 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph)

White-yellowish sandstone, almost round in shape

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Broken at the upper left corner and at the bottom. A thin layer of the inscribed surface is flaked off all around the text

The text is engraved and painted over in heavy red colour, faded at places. Round alphabet, featuring an alpha with a long broken bar. Letters of mediocre execution and with a descending alignment, except in the last two lines

Heavily red painted vertical lines Framing the left and right side of the text Incised red painted linear cross with forked serifs Above the epitaph Cross with linear serifs with unrecognizable red painted decoration below it Below the epitaph Outlined cross with triangulated serifs drawn in red paint First line of epitaph Forked serif linear cross drawn in red paint Final line of epitaph 16 January 577 CE Negev Zoora An-naq' Cemetery

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

+ + Εἷς Θεός, ὁ πάντωνπάντον Δεσπότης. Ἐνθάδε κεῖταικῖτε ὁ μακάριος πάπα ϹΟΝΟϹ, ζήσας ἔτη νε, ἀποθανώνἀποθανὸν ἡμέρᾳ ς, μηνὸς Περιτίου α, ἰνδικτιῶνος ι, τοῦ ἔτους υοα. + +

One (is) the God, the Lord of all. Here lies the blessed papa (father), … who lived 55 years and died on the 6th day (Friday), on the 1st (day) of the month Peritios, in the 10th indiction, in the year 471.

While the letters ϹΟΝΟϹ are clear in line 4, they are not quite understandable by the original authors. They most likely represent the name of the deceased. The first sigma could be interpreted as an epsilon rendering a possible phonetic version of the names Αἰῶν, Αἰῶνις, or Αἰῶνος. Given the epithet πάπας, the deceased was likely a member of the local clergy.

Εἷς Θεός, ὁ πάντον Δεσπότης. Ἐνθάδε κῖτε ὁ μακάριος πάπα ϹΟΝΟϹ ζήσας ἔτη νε ἀποθανὸν ἡμέρᾳ ς μηνὸς Περιτίου α ἰνδικτιῶνος ι τοῦ ἔτους υοα

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