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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1172. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w: 1.80 x h: 0.31 x d: 0.42, supported on a plinth w: 0.16.
Text: Lightly incised, with traces of rubrication on the south face of the coffin; there is a double line pinted between each line. A fragment (w: 0.075 x h: 0.05)was found nearby.
Letters: No measurements

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

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, cemetery, Tomb 32
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914)

Interpretive

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suịṣ ạ[mabilis b]ị[xit annos plus minus]
X̣X̣ṾỊỊ. Rekẹṣịṭ ḍe ok sekulọ ṣụḅ ḍị[e ---]
indiktio IIII

Diplomatic

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SU...[........].[.................]
.....REK.....EOKSEKUL......[.---]
INDIKTIOIIII

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . lovable] to his own. [He lived] for [more or less] 27 [years]; he left this world on day [ . ? ], indiction 3.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 32 and figs.79, 80; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)

   Fig. 2. Fragment