Bilingual epitaph of Ishmeele, daughter of Abdaretas.  Sandstone tombstone.
[ ] Arabia / Pal. Tertia — Zoora (Ghor es-Safi) — An-Naq‛ Cemetery — 2nd/3rd? c. AD
Greek.1 Ἰσμεήλῃ ∙ Ἀβδαρέτου, ∙ Ζωΐλος
Ἀλέβου, ∙ συνβίῳ, ∙ εὐνοίας ∙ χάριν.
Nab. (transl.).1 “This is the monument which Zoilos, son of ‘Aleb, made for Ishma‘īn,
his beloved wife, daughter of Abusalem, in the month of Siwan.”
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