Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface
w:
1.38 x h:
0.42 x d:
0.52, supported on a plinth
w:
0.09.
Text: Scratched, with traces of red paint, a on the south face of the coffin, b on the lower rim.
Letters: No measurements
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 2.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(a): . . . ] He lived in peace for more or less 29 years; he left this world on the seventh day of S[eptember? . . ., first indiction.
(b): May the Lord grant you rest eternal.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 2 and fig.25; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261
Images
Fig. 1. a and b: Drawing (Luigi Turba)