Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface;
w:
1.84 x h:
0.49 x d:
0.51, supported on a plinth
w:
0.19.
Text: Inscribed with a stylus on the south face while the plaster was still fresh; the letters show traces of rubrication, and
there are traces of lines beneath the writing. There are traces of a rubricated cross within a double circle on the east face.
Letters: Lines 1-3, 0.058-0.075; line 4, 0.048-0.062
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 14.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
In this grave lies the body, Peter, of good memory, who was dear to his own. He lived in peace for more or less 36 years; he left this world on the second day of [?], indiction 13.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 14 and fig.42, 43, 44; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261
Images
Fig. 1. Facsimile, from a plaster cast.