Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Zoor 0406

Zoora, 394/395 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

Purple sandstone, rectangular in shape with rounded corners, tapered at the bottom

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The inscribed surface presents a crack on its upper left side and it is now covered with salt crystals and lichens

Traces of an earlier Greek inscription above the frame witness to the stone's second use

The text is painted over in red. The letters are medium sized and clearly cut, but not carefully spaced and aligned

 Remains of an incised and red painted frame Around the inscription 394/395 CE Negev Zoora An-naq' Cemetery

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הדה נפשהדיעקוב דאתכנשבשנת ש מאה כו שנין לחרבןבית מקדשהשלום

This is the tombstone of Ya'aqob who was gathered in the year 300 {hundred} (and) 26 years of the destruction of the Sanctuary. Peace.

הדה נפשה דיעקוב דאתכנש בשנת ש מאה כו שנין לחרבן בית מקדשה שלום

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