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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1165. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface; w: 1.80 x h: 0.67 x d: 0.64, supported on a plinth w: 0.17.
Text: Incised on the south face; there is a design of two fish on the north face.
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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[p]ạḳẹ p̣lụṣ ṃịṇụṣ ạṇṇọṣ [c. 4]II. Ṛẹḳ[essit]
ḍẹ ọk ṣẹkulo ṣụḅ ḍịẹ ṃẹ[nsis ---]

Diplomatic

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[.]....L............[····]II...[.....]
...K..KULO........[....---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . He lived in] peace for more or less ??2 years; he left this world on day of the month [ . . .

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 25 and figs.61, 62; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)

   Fig. 2. North face: drawing (Luigi Turba)