Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Zoora, first quarter of 5th century CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

Yellow and purple sandstone with diagonal stripes, rectangular in shape

Chipped all around. The inscribed surface is flaked off in the upper right side

The text is set between red-painted guide lines

The text seems to have been writte in thick red colour between every other set of guide-lines. The script of the Greek text follows the round alphabet with small symmetrical letters, carefully drawn and aligned

 Big outlined sun disc surrounded by rays running clockwise Above the inscription. The symbolic motif is deeply engraved and heavily painted over in red colour with the exception of the rays which are only painted Series of snakes, vertically depicted in red colour Flanking both the symbolic motif and the inscription Big plain cross with linear serifs, bearing a small horizontal stroke in its four corners Enclosed within the sun-disc above the inscription Two horizontal palm branches, drawn heraldically in red paint Above the sun disc First quarter of 5th c. CE Negev Zoora An Naq Cemetery

Found by local inhabitants in the northwest corner of the Bronze Age, Byzantine and Islamic cemetery in the An Naq neighborhood south of the Wadi al-Hasa, probably in secondary use in later graves.

 Department of Antiquities of Jordan

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 Creation Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames Edited Edited adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

Εἷς Θεός, ὁ πάντων Δεσπότης

One (is) the God, theLord of all.....

Εἷς Θεός, ὁ πάντων Δεσπότης

Line 4: The now lost fourth line contains several faded Aramaic letters, written upside-down in red paint. Probably remains of an earlier Jewish Aramaic inscription, placed in the opposite direction to that of the Greek one.

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