WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1150. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface; w: 1.64 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.55, supported on a plinth w: 0.15.
Text: Lightly graffito on the south face, with a double line above and below each line; there is a rubricated cross on the east face.
Letters: No measurements.

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

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, cemetery, Tomb 10.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914)

Interpretive

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[c. 25]ỊỊ [...] ṃẹ[n]ṣ[is]
Iuniụṣ ind(ictio) XIIII. Ṛẹq̣ụịẹm eterṇaṃ det tịḅị Ḍ(omi)[n](u)[s]

Diplomatic

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IUNI..INDXIIII......METER.A.DETT....[..]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . month of June, indiction 14. May the Lord grant you rest eternal.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 10 and figs.36, and 354; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

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

   Fig. 2. East face, from a plaster cast