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ZOOR0165

Zoora, August 24, 440 CE. Tombstone. Epitaph.

Transcription

+ ΜνημῖονΜνημεῖον ἘπιφονίαἘπιφανίας Εὐσεβίου, ἀποθανοῦσα ι μετὰ καλοῦ ὀνάματοςὀνόματος ἐτῶν ιζʹ, ἐν μενὶμηνὶ ΓαρπιαίῳΓορπιαίῳ ςʹ, ἐν ἔτϛει τλεʹ, ἡμέρᾳ ζʹ.

Translation

Monument of Epiphania, (daughter) of Eusebios, who died having a good name (at the age) of 17 years, in (the) year 335, on the 6th (day) of the month Gorpiaios, in (the year) 335, on the 7th day (Sunday).

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Notes
The inscription provides the date as the 7th day (Saturday), the 6th day of the month Gorpiaios in the year 335 according to the Era of the Province of Arabia, that is, August 24, 440 CE. The tombstone is one of about 700 discovered in Byzantine Zoora. The majority of the Greek tombstones from this location have been identified as Christian. In line two, the stone-cutter initially wrote the name of the deceased with a masculine ending but later changed it to feminine. A vertical line at the end of line four may be a superfluous iota. In line nine, the two-letter abbreviation of ἔτει is now lost, although the symbol S remains. The editor notes that the name of the deceased, Ἐπιφονία, is a variant of Ἐπιφάνιος and appears here for the first time at Ghor es-Safi. The text contains both spelling and grammatical errors.

Languages

Greek

Dimensions

H: 43 cm; W: 26 cm; D: 8 cm

Date

440 CE to 440 CE

Current location

Department of Antiquities of Jordan

Figures

  • Guide-lines within the text

  • Cross at the beginning of the first line

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Other sources

  • Meimaris, Yiannis, and Kalliope Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou. Inscriptions from Palaestina Tertia Vol. Ia: The Greek Inscriptions from Ghor Es-Safi (Byzantine Zoora). Athens, Greece: National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2005.
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