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Golan. Kafr el-Ma, 1-500 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).
Transcription

θάρσει Λουκία Μαρίνου ἐτῶν λʹ

Translation

[Be of good courage] Lucia(?), daughter of Marinus! Thirty years old.

Diplomatic

ΛΟΥΙΑΜΑΡΙΝΟΥΕΤΩΝΛ

Terminus post quem:
Terminus ante quem:
Notes
Tombstone, inscription incomplete. The only surviving record of this epitaph is an underexposed photograph, which makes the reading here very uncertain. A triangle is formed by an incised line and the peaked top of the stone, making the letters barely visible within. The characters at the beginning and end of line 1 are doubtful. We might expect a θάρσει to precede the transcription, but nothing this definite is readable. Μαρῖνος is a common name. The date of this inscription is impossible to fix, except that it and other artifacts in Kafr el-Ma conform to other Golan antiquities datable to the first six centuries CE.

Languages

Greek

Dimensions

H: 146 cm; W: 34 cm; D: —

Date

1 CE to 500 CE

Current location

No provenance provided.

Figures

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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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  • Epstein, C. “The Survey in the Golan Heights.” In Judea, Samaria and the Golan: Archaeological Survey 1967-1968, 243–98. Jerusalem, 1972.
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