Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Zoor 0404

Zoora, 3 January 386 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

White sandstone, rectangular in shape, with rounded top and bottom

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Broken in two pieces in the middle

The text is filled with red paint, written in letters of variable size not properly spaced and aligned

Red painted frame with zigzag pattern Around inscription Red painted religious symbols of a seven-branched Candelabrum with schematized flames at the top of the branches Below inscription Red painted "shalom", a citron, and another faded symbol (lulav?) Flanking the candelabrum 3 January 386 CE Negev Zoora An-naq' Cemetery

Living Torah Museum, Brooklyn, New York

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

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

הדה נפשה דזים ברת שילה דמיתתבשתה תניניתהדשבועה וי יומיןבירח טיבת שנת תלת מא יח שנין לחרבן בית מקדשהשלום שלום

This is the tombstone of (Z)ym, daughter of Shilah, who died in the second year of the seven year cycle, on the 16th of the month Tebet, the y[ear] three hundred (and) 18 years of the destruction of the Sanctuary. Peace, peace.

A synchronization between the year from destruction and the second sabbatical year could be obtained if the era year figure is amended to 317.

הדה נפשה דזים ברת שילה דמיתת בשתה תניניתה דשבועה וי יומין בירח טיבת שנת תלת מא יח שנין לחרבן בית מקדשה שלום שלום

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