Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Zoor 0410

Zoora, 3 February 415 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

White sandstone, rectangular in shape

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Broken at the upper left corner

A horizontal line separates the inscription from various ritual objects represented below the text. Both the epitaph and the symbolic decorations are enclosed within a frame

The frame, all the decorative elements and the text itself are painted over in red ink. The medium sized letters are well executed but present a descending alignment

 Red painted frame with a dotted pattern Around the inscription Big seven branched candelabrum with small flames depicted at its top Below the inscription Lulav One to the left and one to the right of the seven branched candelabrum Schematic ram's horn To the left of the seven branched candelabrum Incense shovel To the right of the seven branched candelabrum Decorative dots On the branches, the shaft and the base of the candelabrum, as well as in the shovel and at the edges of the ram's horn 3 February 415 CE Negev Zoora An-naq' Cemetery

Private Collection in 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 נפשה דיודה חזנהבר עמרם דמית בח יומין בירח אדר קדמיא דשתה ג דשבועה שנת תלת מא מו שנין לחרבן בית מקדשה שלום שלום שלום

This is the tombstone of Yudah the sexton, son of 'Amram, who died on the 8th day in the month of first Adar, of the 3rd year of the seven-year cycle, the year three hundred (and) 46 years of the destruction of the Sanctuary. Peace, peace, peace.

The month day figure and preposition ב in line 2, the sabbatical year in line 3, and the tens and unites of the era year numeral in line 4 are all enclosed within frames.

הדה נפשה דיודה חזנה בר עמרם דמית ח יומין בירח אדר קדמיא דשתה ג דשבועה שנת תלת מא מו שנין לחרבן בית מקדשה שלום שלום שלום

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