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ELAL0007

Golan Heights. El-'Αl, Late Hellenistic or Roman Period. Tombstone. Epitaph.


Transcription θάρσι ΝατωνῖνεἈντωνῖνε ιἐτῶν κε
Translation Be of good courage, Antoninos! Twenty-five years old.
Diplomatic ΘΑΡΣΙ ΝΑΤΩΝΙΝΕ Ι ΚΕ

Transcription

θάρσι ΝατωνῖνεἈντωνῖνε ιἐτῶν κε

Translation

Be of good courage, Antoninos! Twenty-five years old.

Diplomatic

ΘΑΡΣΙ ΝΑΤΩΝΙΝΕ Ι ΚΕ

Terminus post quem:: 150 BCE
Terminus ante quem:: 300 CE

Notes

This is a complete tombstone inscription. The standard Greek opening "Be of good courage" is followed by the name and age of the deceased. The reading proposed in the transcription reverses the order of the first two letters of line 2; the apparent iota between name and age at the beginning of line 3 is suggested to be an abbreviation. Dimensions given are for entire stone.

Languages

Greek

Dimensions

H: 31 cm; W: 34 cm; D: 13 cm

Date

150 BCE to 300 CE

Current location

Unknown

Figures

No figures described.

Bibliography

Source of diplomatic

No bibliography available for diplomatic transcription.

Source of transcription

No bibliography available for transcription.

Source of translation

No bibliography available for translation.

Other sources

Gregg, Robert C., and Dan Urman. Jews, Pagans, and Christians in the Golan Heights: Greek and Other Inscriptions of the Roman and Byzantine Eras. South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism 140. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.

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