Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface; w:
1.94 x h:
0.60 x d:
0.44, supported on a plinth
w:
0.13.
Text: Inscribed on the south face; there are crosses on the west and east faces
Letters: 0.055-0.075, average 0.060
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 21.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
In this grave lies the body, Rull[- . .. ], of good memory, [dear to our heart], who was killed by an irresistible sword. He lived in peace for more or less 35 years; he left this world on day 6 of the month of December, indiction 13. Amen.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 21 and figs.55, 56, 57, whence AE 1933.220, Gagé, 1937 , whence mentioned AE 1937, p.68-9, whence EDH 024090; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261,
Images
Fig. 1. Facsimile, from a plaster cast
Fig. 2. West face: facsimile, from a plaster cast
Fig. 3. East face: facsimile, from a plaster cast