Tombstone for Maria and Lazarus (JOP0111)

Dublin Core

Title

Tombstone for Maria and Lazarus (JOP0111)

Description

Inscribed marble tombstone, in Greek, for Maria and Lazarus, from Joppa/Jaffa, dated between the 3rd-6th c. CE (JOP0111)

Source

Publisher

CIIP3: 2218

Format

Marble

Language

Identifier

JOP0111

Funerary inscription Item Type Metadata

Dimensions

H 24cm
W 28.5cm
D 4.1cm

Diplomatic

ΜΗΜΟΡΙΟΝ
ΔΙΑΦΕΡΩΝ
ΜΑΡΙΑΣ
ΚΛΑΖΑΡΟΥ

Translation

Tomb belonging to Maria and Lazarus

Diplomatic Constituted From

CIIP3

Translation Constituted From

CIIP3

Letters

3-4cm

Findspot

Jaffa necropolis or Caesarea

Current Location (if known)

Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, inv. no. C 41654

Name 1

Name 2

Selected Bibliography

CIIP3=Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, volume III: South Coast: a multi-lingual corpus of
the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad, Ameling et. al. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2014. pp.95-96, no.2218

Citation

“Tombstone for Maria and Lazarus (JOP0111),” WIRE: Women in the Roman East Project, accessed April 20, 2024, https://www.wireproject.org/items/show/178.

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