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ELAL0009

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


Transcription θάρσι μτ α ἔτους κα´
Translation Be of good courage, .mt.a(?)! Twenty-one years old.
Diplomatic ΘΑΡΣ ΜΤ ΑΕΤΟ ΚΑ

Transcription

θάρσι μτ α ἔτους κα´

Translation

Be of good courage, .mt.a(?)! Twenty-one years old.

Diplomatic

ΘΑΡΣ ΜΤ ΑΕΤΟ ΚΑ

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

Notes

This is an incomplete tombstone inscription. The standard Greek opening "Be of good courage" is followed by the name and age of the deceased; the name, however, cannot be reconstructed. Damage to the right portion of the tombstone occurred as a result of its subsequent use as a wall block. The final α could be read as θ, which would change the age from twenty-one to twenty-nine. Dimensions given are for the entire remainder of the tombstone.

Languages

Greek

Dimensions

H: 45 cm; W: 31 cm; D: 14 cm

Date

150 BCE to 300 CE

Current location

Unknown

Figures

No figures described.

Bibliography

Source of diplomatic

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Source of transcription

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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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