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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1148. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface; w: 1.37 x h: 0.37 x d: 0.34, supported on a plinth w: 0.12.
Text: Inscribed, not deeply, with traces of rubrication, on the south face; there is a circle containing a cross, on west side.
Letters: No measurements

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

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, Tomb 8.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914)

Interpretive

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[c. 15]IIII[re]q̣ụịẹṃ [e]ṭẹṛ[nam]
[d]e<t> ṭịḅị Ḍ(omi)ṇ(u)s et lux perpetua lucea<t> tibi. Amen

Diplomatic

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[···············]IIII[..].....[.]...[...]
[.]E......SETLUXPERPETUALUCEATIBIAMEN

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] May the Lord grant you rest eternal, and may light perpetual shine for you. Amen

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 8 and fig.32; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)