Description: Elaborate tomb-slab (w:
0.50 x h:
1.60 x d:
0.07, height incomplete) of soft brown limestone
Text: Carved and inscribed in low counter-relief. The inscription (die, w:
0.35 x h:
0.90,
height incomplete) occupies the lower and taller of two rectangular panels set within a guilloche border.
Above is a Latin cross, with stars in the upper corners; A and Ω and two leaves in the lower.
Letters: Capitals: 0.065.
Date: Fourth-seventh centuries CE (content)
Findspot:
Western Jabal:
Found in situ in the apse of the church 1 km. south of
Ras el-Wadi and 3 km. North West of the mudariya of
El-Asabaa (map ref. Q 143782).
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Cross) With God favourable, here rests Turrentius, presbyter, of good memory, who lived in peace approximately forty-seven years and was laid to rest in peace [---]
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1928b, 84-88, fig. 11; IRT, 1952, 861, whence IRT, 2009, 861, whence EDH 059711; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 689 Leica)