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[Corinth Object] I 251: GREEK IMPERIAL INSCRIPTION: BILINGUAL?

I-0251 + 2294: Thick slab, front face smooth, back sawn smoothly; possible faint anathyrosis on bottom edge, left edge worked with fine point (?). Clamp cutting in bottom, set in 0.148 m. from lt. edge, ... Early Roman ... I 251

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[Corinth Object] I 257: MARBLE HEBREW INSCRIPTION

Thick slab. Translation of text (from Starr): E 1. I do weep L 2. For the good youth whom the Good One has taken Ia 3. My gold is become dim, my beloved one has been cut off My son (my son) Eliaqim Q 4 ... Between 886-1147 AD (Starr, Jews in the Byz Empire, 1939). Jacoby (BZ 84/85, 1991/1992) disputes it. A. Λαμπροπούλου 1995. Α. Λαμπροπούλου-Κ. Τσικνάκης 2008 ... I 257