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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1155. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface; w: 1.60 x h: 0.55 x d: 0.38.
Text: Inscribed on the south face; the letters show traces of rubrication; there are traces of crosses on the east and north faces.
Letters: No measurements

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

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, cemetery, Tomb 15.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914)

Interpretive

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[---] Ḅ[ixit] ịṇ p̣ake ạṇọṣ [c. 10]
[c. 5] Rekesit de ok sekulo sub die ṃensis
[Ian]uarius indik(tio) III. Requiem eternam de<t> tịḅị D(omi)n(u)s

Diplomatic

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[---].[....]...AKE....[··········]
[·····]REKESITDEOKSEKULOSUBDIE.ENSIS
[...]UARIUSINDIKIIIREQUIEMETERNAMDET...DNS

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] He lived in peace for [ ?] years; he left this world in the month of January, indiction 3. May the Lord grant you rest eternal.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 15 and fig.45; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)