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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1144. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface w: 2.20 x h: 0.37 x d: 0.50, supported on a plinth w: 0.13.
Text: Inscribed on the west face.
Letters: 0.028

Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, cemetery, Tomb 4.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914)

Interpretive

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[---]C̣ỤḲ in fine s[e]culi; requiem ete[rna]m [---]

Diplomatic

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[---]...INFINES[.]CULIREQUIEMETE[...]M[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] at the end of this world: rest eternal [ . . .

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 4 and fig.27; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)