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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1164. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface; w: 1.87 x h: 0.40 x d: 0.54, supported on a plinth w: 0.11-0.13.
Text: Incised line 1 on the south face, line 2 on the plinth below; there are traces of a double line, painted and in part incised, below line 2.
Letters: No measurements

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

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, cemetery, Tomb 24.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914)

Interpretive

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[---ete]ṛnạṃ ḍet tiḅị Ḍ(omi)ṇ(u)ṣ[et lux per]p̣ẹṭụa
( vac. )lukea<t> tibi

Diplomatic

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[---...].N...ETTI.....[........]....A
      LUKEATIBI

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] May the Lord grant you rest eternal, and may light perpetual shine for you.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 24 and fig.60; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)