Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w:
1.55 x h:
0.52 x d:
0.47, supported on a plinth
w:
0.18. Fragments: a: w:
0.31 x h:
0.21;
b: w:
0.10 x h:
0.18; c: w:
0.18 x h:
0.12;
d: w:
0.16 x h:
0.11.
Text: Inscribed i, lines 1-3 on the south face of the coffin and line 4 on the plinth beneath; ii on the west face, cut
below a cross, on either side of the vertical; iii on associated fragments of plaster.
Letters: No measurements
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 11
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i): . . . ] took away. He lived in peace for more or less ? years; he left this world on the [ . . . ]. May the Lord grant you rest eternal, and may light perpetual shine for you.
(ii): Holy, Immortal. Have mercy on me.
(iii.a):. . . ] lovable to his own [ . . . ] whom a black day [ . . .
(iii.b, c, d): (Not usefully translatable.)
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 11 and figs.37, 38, 39; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261