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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1163. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface; w: 1.46 x h: 0.47 x d: 0.37.
Text: Carefully incised and rubricated on the south face; there is a double line, painted and in part incised, below the text.
Letters: Line 1, 0.05-0.065; line 2, 0.058-0.070

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

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, cemetery, Tomb 23.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914)

Interpretive

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annos XXV. Rekessit de ok sekulọ
sub die XVII mensis Agostas. Requiem ete[r](nam)

Diplomatic

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ANNOSXXVREKESSITDEOKSEKUL.
SUBDIEXVIIMENSISAGOSTASREQUIEMETE[.]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . He lived] 35 years; he left this world on day 17 of the month of August. rest eternal.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 23 and fig.59; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. Partial facsimile, from a cast