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X. el-Mughar
2292. Greek funerary inscription written between 516 and 526
Small marble slab, the left-hand side is lost.Meas.: h 22, w 27 cm.
Findspot: Probably from el-Mughar, not found in situ.Pres. loc.: Museum of Louvre, Paris, inv. no. AO 1227. [--] [--] [--] [--] [--]
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In the year 620 (or any number up to 629) on the 20th day of the month ...eus ... aneus son of ...dnus, citizen of Ascalon.
Comm.: l.2: [] Clermont-Ganneau (ARP), Dussaud; l.5 []- Di Segni apud Fischer - Taxel - Amit.
The inscription seems to be a funer-ary text for a citizen of Ascalon whose name and patronym were mentioned. Since it is not clear whether or not a number is missing before the , any
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194 X. el-Mughar
year between 620 und 629 is possible. The name of the month remains unknown. The normal word for a citizen of Ascalon is or .
Bibl.: Conder - Kitchener, SWP 2 Samaria 427 (ed. pr.). Ch. Clermont-Ganneau, PEQ 6, 1874, 275 no. 17 (only mentioned); id., AMSL 11, 1885, 157-251 at 172 no. 24 (dr.); id., ARP II 193; Dussaud, Louvre 72 no. 88; Meimaris, Chron. Systems 68f. no. 4; Bagatti, Judaea 175; C. Dau-phin, La Palestine Byzantine, 1998, 859 no. 4 pl. 10; M. Fischer - I. Taxel - D. Amit, BASOR 350, 2008, 18ff. (with reference to the unpublished Diss. of L. Di Segni [= DGI no. 134]).
Photo: RMN Th. Ollivier, courtesy of the Museum of Louvre, Paris; Ch. Clermont Ganneau, AMSL 11, 1885, 172 (dr.).
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