Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface; w:
1.68 x h:
0.33 x d:
0.56, supported on a plinth
w:
0.11-0.12.
Text: Deeply incised and rubricated, on the south face: lines 1-4 on the tomb and line 5 (1.31 long) on the plinth below; there
are traces of a
double line painted between the lines. There is a cross within a circle on the east face,
.
Letters: Very irregular: line 1, 0.06-0.075; line 2, 0.066-0.082; line 3, 0.058-0.082; line 4, 0.052-0.085; line 5, 0.061-0.092
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 27.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . was ] lovable [to his own]. He lived in peace for more or less 37 years; he left this world on day 27 of the month July, indiction 3. May the Lord grant you rest eternal. May whoever reads (scil. this) say Amen.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 27 and figs.65, 66, 67; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261
Images
Fig. 1. Facsimile, from a cast
Fig. 2. East face: facsimile, from a cast