Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface;
w:
1.78 x h:
0.54 x d:
0.57, supported on a plinth
w:
0.14-0.18.
Text: Inscribed with deep and lavishly rubricated letters, and a double line between the lines; lines 1-3 on the south face, line
4 on the
south face continuing onto the east face.
Letters: No measurements
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 18.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . ] took away [ . . . ] harsh death overcame him. He lived in peace for more or less 20 years; he left this world on day 7 of the month of June, indiction 14. May the Lord grant you rest eternal. Amen.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 18 and fig.48; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261
Images
Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)