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ELAL0014

Golan Heights. El-'Αl, Late Hellenistic or Roman Period. Block. Funerary (Epitaph).

Transcription

νι Εὐμαθή ἐτῶν ξ´ε´

Translation

...Eumathe. Sixty-five years old.

Diplomatic

ΝΙΕΥ ΜΑ ΘΗΕ ΤΞΕ

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Notes
This incomplete inscription is likely to be the remainder of an epitaph. Damage at the top and upper right corner of the stone suggests that a line of writing there was lost. Its shape is that of a tombstone; however, the first two letters ΝΙ do not permit a reading of θάρσι, the standard opening to Greek epitaphs, which we would expect before the name and age of the deceased that constitute this inscription. Dimensions given refer to the entire remainder of the stone.

Languages

Greek

Dimensions

H: 45 cm; W: 33 cm; D: 14 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

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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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