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Location

SURM0004

Surman, 346-347 CE. Tombstone. Epitaph.

Transcription

θάρσι Ζνηνόδωρος, οὐδὶς ἀθάνατος ἐτῶν κθʹ ἔτους ιυʹ

Translation

Be of good courage, Zenodorus! No one is immortal. Twenty-nine years old, in the year 410.

Diplomatic

ΘΑΡΣΙΖ ΗΝΟΔ ΩΡΟΣ ΟΥΔΙΣ ΑΘΑΝ ΑΤΟΣ ΤΩΝΚΘ ΤΟΥΣΙΥ

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Languages

Greek

Dimensions

H: 125 cm; W: 33 cm; D: 12 cm

Date

346 CE to 347 CE

Current location

No provenance provided.

Figures

  • Lines above each line of writing

Bibliography

Source of diplomatic

  • 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.
    Zotero

Source of transcription

  • 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.
    Zotero

Source of translation

  • 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.
    Zotero
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