Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface;
w:
1.66 x h:
0.67 x d:
0.54, supported on a plinth
w:
0.22.
Text: Lightly scratched on the south face, with traces of rubrication, and a strong single line between each line;
there are traces of a cross on the east face.
Letters: No measurements
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 17.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . he left] this world on day ? of the month of October, indiction 7. [ . . . ]. May the Lord grant you rest eternal and may light perpetual [ . . .
Commentary
Aurigemma was unable to find traces of the conclusion of line 3.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 17 and fig.47; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261
Images
Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)