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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0256. Christian funerary inscription for Ianes

Description: Tomb.
Text: No description.
Letters: No description

Date: Fifth-seventh centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Tripoli: A tomb to the South of the main cemetery at Ain Zara , briefly recorded by Aurigemma in 1913 (for the other texts see 1141 following).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1913)

Interpretive

[In] ọḳ tumulo
p̣ositus est
b(onae) m(emoriae) Ianes biksit
in pake pl(us) m(inus) an(nos) XXX
5rekiebit su(b) karta
decima mensis Aprilis

Diplomatic

[..]..TUMULO
.OSITUSEST
BMIANESBIKSIT
INPAKEPLMANXXX
5REKIEBITSUKARTA
DECIMAMENSISAPRILIS

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[In] this tomb is buried Ianes of good memory; he lived in peace approximately 30 years and went to rest on the 14th of the month of April.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 169- 170; IRT, 1952, 256, whence IRT, 2009, 256, whence EDH 059226

Images

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