Zoora, 10 April 504 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).
Local sandstone, rectangular in shape with rounded corners and chipped all around
The inscribed surface is weathered especially at the bottom
The text is written in medium sized letters, carefully drawn and straightly aligned
Taxonomies for IIP controlled values
תתניח נפשה הדה
דשמעיה בר יצחק
דמית בעסרה בירח
ניסן בשתה
קדמיתה
דשבועה דהיא שנת
ארבע מאה ותלתין
וחמש שנין
לחרבן
Rested be the soul of Ḥalifu
daughter ....., who died
on the third day
(Tuesday), on the eleventh
day of the month Elul, in the Sabbatical year,
which is the year
four hundred and thirty
five years of the
destruction
of the Santuary. Peace
upon Israel, peace.
The concluding wish in lines 8-10 is in Hebrew. Dated to 10 Nisan 435 E.D.S., 1st S.Y. = 504 C.E.