Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface;
w:
1.95 x h:
0.50 x d:
0.68, supported on a plinth
w:
0.13-0.31.
Text: Inscribed i on the south face; ii on the east face.
Letters: Handsome letters; no measurements. ii: cross within a circle.
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 9.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i): . . . he left] this world in the month of July, indiction 7. (ii) God Sabaoth.
(ii) God Sabaoth.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 9 and figs.33, and 34; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261
Images
Fig. 1. i: Drawing (Luigi Turba)
Fig. 2. ii: Drawing (Luigi Turba)