Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Zoora, 375-400 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

White-brownish sandstone

Only the upper left part has been preserved, missing its upper left corner. The front surface of the stone has been roughly smoothed.

The text is set between deeply engraved guide-lines

Big round letters with an ascending alignment, deeply incised

 Big palm branch in horizontal position Above the preserved fragment of the epitaph Upper part of a cross-rho monogram To the right of the palm branch 375-400 CE Negev Zoora An-Naq Cemetery

Department of Antiquities of Jordan

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

ΜνημεῖονΜνημῖον Κλαυδίου Ὠρίωνος, άποθανόντος μετά καλοῦ ὀνόματος

Monument of Claudius (?),(son) of Orion, whodied having a good[name] .............

Μνημῖον Κλαυδίου Ὠρίωνος, άποθανόντος μετά καλοῦ ὀνόματος

Line 2: only the upper half of the iota is legible. Line 4: Only lower oblique hasta of kappa is lost.

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