Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Zoor 0405

Zoora, 12 April 392 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

White sandstone, rectangular in shape

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The front surface is worn in the middle of the right side and heavily chipped at the lower right corner

The epitaph is enclosed in a linear frame and set between guidelines. In the area framed by the last two guidelines two tetx lines have been accommodated instead of one, probably due to miscalculation of the writing surface

The text is decorated with red colour. The script is professional with small, carefully executed and aligned letters

 Incised and red painted frame Around the inscription 12 April 392 CE Negev Zoora An-naq' Cemetery

Private Collection in Amman

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הדה נפשה דיעקבבר שמואל דמית ביום תריה בר ארבעין שניה בתלתה יומיןבירח אייר בשתהקדמיתה דשבועהשנת תלת מאה ועשריןותלת שנין לחרבן בית מקדשה

This is the tombstone of Ya'aqob, son of Shmu'el, who died on the second day (Monday), aged forty years, on the third day of the month Iyyar, in the first year of the seven-year cycle, the year three hundred and twenty-three years of the destruction of the Sanctuary.

הדה נפשה דיעקב בר שמואל דמית ביום תריה בר ארבעין שניה בתלתה יומין בירח אייר בשתה קדמיתה דשבועה שנת תלת מאה ועשרין ותלת שנין לחרבן בית מקדשה

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