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<title>Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine</title>
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<resp>Prinicipal Investigator</resp>
<persName xml:id="MS">Michael Satlow</persName>
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<p>Zoora, first quarter of 5th century CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).</p>
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<p>Yellow and purple sandstone with diagonal stripes, rectangular in
shape</p>
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<height/>
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<condition ana="#complete.broken">
<p>Chipped all around. The inscribed surface is flaked off in the upper
right side</p>
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<p>The text is set between red-painted guide lines</p>
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<handNote ana="#painted">
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<p>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</p>
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<decoNote ana="#xx">
<ab>Big outlined sun disc surrounded by rays running clockwise</ab>
<locus>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</locus>
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<decoNote>
<ab>Series of snakes, vertically depicted in red colour</ab>
<locus>Flanking both the symbolic motif and the inscription</locus>
</decoNote>
<decoNote>
<ab>Big plain cross with linear serifs, bearing a small horizontal stroke in
its four corners</ab>
<locus>Enclosed within the sun-disc above the inscription</locus>
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<decoNote>
<ab>Two horizontal palm branches, drawn heraldically in red paint</ab>
<locus>Above the sun disc</locus>
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<date period="http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p0m63njjcn4" notBefore="0401" notAfter="0425">First quarter of 5th c. CE</date>
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<region>Negev</region>
<settlement ref="http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697768">Zoora</settlement>
<geogName type="site">An Naq Cemetery</geogName>
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<p>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.</p>
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<placeName>Department of Antiquities of Jordan</placeName>
<date/>
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<change when="2012-05-05" who="persons.xml#Andrew_Tobolowsky">Creation</change>
<change when="2016-12-14" who="persons.xml#Elli_Mylonas">Adding Pleiades IDs to
origin/placenames</change>
<change when="2017-10-03" who="Lena Milton">Edited</change>
<change when="2018-03-07" who="Gaia Lembi">Edited</change>
<change when="2019-01-29" who="persons.xml#Elli_Mylonas">
adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.
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<lb/>
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<lb/>Εἷς Θεός,
ὁ πάν<unclear>τ</unclear><lb break="no"/>ων Δε<unclear>σπότ</unclear>ης <gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="line"/>
<lb/>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/></p>
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<p> One (is) the God, the<lb/>Lord of all.....</p>
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<div type="edition" subtype="transcription_segmented" change="c2021-06-16"><p> <w xml:id="zoor0390-1" xml:lang="grc">Εἷς</w> <w xml:id="zoor0390-2" xml:lang="grc">Θεός,</w> <w xml:id="zoor0390-3" xml:lang="grc">ὁ</w> <w xml:id="zoor0390-4" xml:lang="grc">πάν<unclear>τ</unclear>ων</w> <w xml:id="zoor0390-5" xml:lang="grc">Δε<unclear>σπότ</unclear>ης</w> </p>
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<p>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. </p>
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