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ZOOR0404

Zoora, 3 January 386 CE. Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph).


Transcription הדה נפשה דזים ברת שילה דמיתתבשתה תניניתהדשבועה וי יומיןבירח טיבת שנת תלת מא יח שנין לחרבן בית מקדשהשלום שלום
Translation This is the tombstone of (Z)ym, daughter of Shilah, who died in the second year of the seven year cycle, on the 16th of the month Tebet, the y[ear] three hundred (and) 18 years of the destruction of the Sanctuary. Peace, peace.
Diplomatic [no diplomatic]

Transcription

הדה נפשה דזים ברת שילה דמיתתבשתה תניניתהדשבועה וי יומיןבירח טיבת שנת תלת מא יח שנין לחרבן בית מקדשהשלום שלום

Translation

This is the tombstone of (Z)ym, daughter of Shilah, who died in the second year of the seven year cycle, on the 16th of the month Tebet, the y[ear] three hundred (and) 18 years of the destruction of the Sanctuary. Peace, peace.

Diplomatic

[no diplomatic]

Terminus post quem:: 386 CE
Terminus ante quem:: 386 CE

Notes

A synchronization between the year from destruction and the second sabbatical year could be obtained if the era year figure is amended to 317.

Languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Dimensions

H: 48 cm; W: 26 cm; D: 8 cm

Date

386 CE to 386 CE

Current location

Living Torah Museum, Brooklyn, New York

Figures

Red painted religious symbols of a seven-branched Candelabrum with schematized flames at the top of the branches below inscription
Red painted "shalom", a citron, and another faded symbol (lulav?) flanking the candelabrum
Red painted frame with zigzag pattern around inscription

Bibliography

Source of diplomatic

Meimaris, Yiannis E., Kalliope Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou, and Sebastian P. Brock. Inscriptions from Palaestina Tertia Vol. 1c. The Jewish Aramaic Inscriptions from Ghor Es-Safi (Byzantine Zoora). Athens, n.d.

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Source of transcription

Meimaris, Yiannis E., Kalliope Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou, and Sebastian P. Brock. Inscriptions from Palaestina Tertia Vol. 1c. The Jewish Aramaic Inscriptions from Ghor Es-Safi (Byzantine Zoora). Athens, n.d.

Zotero

Source of translation

Meimaris, Yiannis E., Kalliope Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou, and Sebastian P. Brock. Inscriptions from Palaestina Tertia Vol. 1c. The Jewish Aramaic Inscriptions from Ghor Es-Safi (Byzantine Zoora). Athens, n.d.

Zotero

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