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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1153. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface 0.018 thick; w: 1.65 x h: 0.54 x d: 0.80, supported on a plinth w: 0.15-0.17.
Text: Inscribed on the south face.
Letters: No measurements

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

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, cemetery, Tomb 13.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914)

Interpretive

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[c. 22]ỊỊ ỊỴS Rekesit
[de ok sek]ụḷọ ṣụḅ ḍịẹ [me]nsis Ianuarius in(dictio)
II. Requiem. Amen U

Diplomatic

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[······················].. ..SREKESIT
[.......].........[..]NSISIANUARIUSIN
IIREQUIEMAMENU

3: II Requiem: Aurigemma suggests an alternative may be In requiem.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] He left this world in the month of January, indiction 2, [?into] rest eternal. Amen. first indiction.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 13 and fig.41; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)