Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Zoor 0411

Zoora, 19 April 426 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).

Local sandstone

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Broken at the upper part. The preserved fragment is chipped at the edges and curved at the bottom

The inscribed surface is now flaked off at places with negligible loss of text. The five surving lines are set between guidelines.

Both the inscription and its decorations are drawn in thick red paint. The script seems rather professional, with nicely executed and properly aligned letters

 Red painted linear frame with a dotted serpentine motif on the left, a dotted zigzag pattern on the right, and a plain serpentine motif on the bottom. Around inscription Big seven branched candelabrum flaked at its top by the word shalom and at its bottom by two lulavs and two citrons accompanied on the left side by a ram's horn and on the right side by a bird Below inscription 19 April 426 CE Negev Zoora An-naq' Cemetery

Private Collection in Italy

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

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

כו יומין ב ירחניסאן בשתה דשמטתה שנאת ג מה נז שנין לחראבותלחרבן בית מקדשהשלום שלום

[This is the tombstone of …? son/daughter of …?, who died on the …? day (of the week) on] the 26th day of the month Nisan, in the sabbatical year, the year 3 hundred (and) 57 years of the destruction of the Sanctuary. Peace, peace.

כו יומין ב ירח ניסאן בשתה דשמטתה שנאת ג מה נז שנין לחראבות בית מקדשה שלום שלום

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