Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Zoor 0396

Zoora, 356/357 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

Whitish sandstone, rectangular in shape, curved at the top and at the right side

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Broken at the lower part with loss of text

Faint traces of Greek characters may be an indication of the stone's reuse

Both the inscription and its rectangular frame are deeply engraved and decorated with thick red color. The script is of the square type, the letters are symmetrical except for the numerical ones in line 5, emphatically bigger, and have been clearly and carefully executed and aligned

Rectangular frame Surrounding inscription
356/357 CE Negev Zoora An-naq' Cemetery

Department of Antiquities of Jordan, storehouse at Nuweijis near Amman

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

Initial Entry Edited adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value. Rerunning segmentation process with updated workflow

הדה נפשהדמרים ברתאבודמהדמיתת שנת רפח שנינ לחרבנ בית מקדשה

This is the tombstone of Miryam, daughter of Abudamah, who died in the year 288 years of the destruction of the (sanctuar)y.

הדה נפשה דמרים ברת אבודמה דמיתת שנת רפח שנינ לחרבנ בית מקדשה

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