Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Zoor 0386

Zoora, 15 June 607 CE. Tombstone, Funerary (Epitaph).

White-yellowish sandstone, rectangular in shape, curved at the top

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Broken at the lower left corner. Weathering at the upper part with partial obliteration of a few letters

Mixed square and oval script. The letters are fairly well executed and present an ascending alignment

Rectangular incised frame Around the inscription. It follows the outline of the stone at the top Incised linear cross with forked serifs Centered between the last line of the inscription and the lower frame line Incised cross with forked serifs missing its upper arm Middle of first line of epitaph 15 June 607 CE Negev Zoora An-naq' Cemetery

Jordan Archaeological Museum of Amman

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

Initial Entry Edited joining adjacent unclear elements adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

Ἐνθά+δε κεῖται Ἰωάννης Γεωργίου Γηοργίου Ἀλεξάνδρου, ζήσας ἔτη ξ, τελευτήσας ἐν μηνῖ Δαισίῳ κς, ἡμέρᾳ Κυρίου Παρασκευῇ, τοῦ ἔτους ψβ, ἰνδικτιῶνος ι. Χριστέ, ἀνάπαυσον αὐτόν. +

Here lies Ioannes, (son) of Georgios, (son) of Alexandros, who lived 60 years and died on the 26th (day) of the month Daisios, on (the) day of (the) Lord Friday, in the year 502, in the 10th indiction Christ, give him rest.

Ἐνθάδε κεῖται Ἰωάννης Γηοργίου Ἀλεξάνδρου, ζήσας ἔτη ξ τελευτήσας ἐν μηνῖ Δαισίῳ κς ἡμέρᾳ Κυρίου Παρασκευῇ, τοῦ ἔτους ψβ ἰνδικτιῶνος ι Χριστέ, ἀνάπαυσον αὐτόν.

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