Description: Elaborately painted rock-cut tomb with two sepulcral recesses each containing a sarcophagus.
Text:
a) Above one recess, within a
wreath (diam. 0.48) upheld by
flying putti.
b) Above the second recess, within a tabella ansata (die,
w:
0.55 x h:
0.21) upheld by flying putti.
c) i, on the lid of the sarcophagus in recess a; ii on the lid of the sarcophagus in recess b.
Letters: Late third or fourth century; a: 0.06; b: 0.03; c: no measurements.
Date: Late third or fourth century (context)
Findspot:
Tripoli:
Gargaresh, west of Tripoli (map ref. L 418665), immediately south of the main coast road.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
a, b, in situ ( 2008); c, believed to be in Tripoli Castle.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a): Sacred to the gods below. Aelia Arisuth lived approximately 60 years.
(b): Aelius Ma[---], ? son of Jurathan. He lived approximately [---]5 years.
(c) (i): Who lies here, a lioness; (ii): Who lies here, a lion.
Bibliography: Clermont-Ganneau, 1903b 358-361, whence AE 1904.19, CIL VIII, suppl.4, 1916, 22687, 22688; Romanelli, 1922, 21 ff., fig. 5.; IRT, 1952, 239, and Reynolds, 1955 126, whence IRT, 2009, 239, whence a and b: EDH 059210 c: EDH 033036; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. a: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 89)
Fig. 2. View: Kenrick, 2008
Fig. 3. a: Kenrick, 2008