Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface;
w:
1.85 x h:
0.46 x d:
0.54, supported on a plinth
w:
0.12-0.14.
Text: Inscribed on the south face; there is a circle, perhaps containing a cross, on the side.
Letters: No measurements
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 6.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . day] of the month of July [ . . . ]day 7. May he grant you rest eternal, and may light perpetual shine for you.
Commentary
Aurigemma suggests that line 2 might contain traces of the name of a Vandal king - Gundamund or Thrasamund.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 6 and fig.29; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261
Images
Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)