Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface;
w:
1.50 x h:
0.33 x d:
0.50, supported on a plinth
w:
0.13.
Text: Inscribed with almost no traces of rubrication, i, with a double line between the lines, on the south face an and ii arranged
around the lower part of a cross on the west face; there are traces of a cross and birds on the north face and of a cross
on the east face.
Letters: No measurements
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 20.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i): . . . ] ,ore or less 27 years; he left this world on day 22 of the month of April, indiction 4.
(ii): Lord God
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 20 and figs.51, 52, 53 and 54; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence IRT, 2009, 261
Images
Fig. 1. i: Drawing (Luigi Turba)
Fig. 2. ii: Drawing, from a cast (Stefani)
Fig. 3. North face: Drawing, from a cast (Stefani)
Fig. 4. East face: Drawing, from a cast (Stefani)