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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1147. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface; w: 1.59 x h: 0.56 x d: 0.50, supported on a plinth w: 0.14-0.18.
Text: Inscribed, in elegant rubricated letters on the south face; there is a cross on the east face.
Letters: No measurements

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

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, cemetery, Tomb 7.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914)

Interpretive

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[c. 30] rek-
essit de ok ṣẹḳụḷọ ṣụḅ ḍie <me>nsis X Deke-
mbeṛ ịṇdiktio II. Ṛẹq̣uiem eternam. Amen.

Diplomatic

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.[······························]REK
ESSITDEOK..........IENSISXDEKE
MBE...DIKTIOII...UIEMETERNAMAMEN

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] he left this world on 10 December, indiction 2. rest eternal. Amen.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 7 and fig.30; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. Main text: Drawing (Luigi Turba)

   Fig. 2. East face: drawing (Luigi Turba)