Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w:
1.40 x h:
0.58 x d:
0.57,
supported on a plinth w:
0.12.
Text: Carefully incised i, on the south face of the coffin, with a double line painted between the lines.
There is a cross in a circle on the east face and traces of a circle on the west face; there is also an associated fragment.
ii is on a fragment of plaster (no measurements) found, with another smaller fragment, nearby but certainly not from the
same tomb.
Letters: No measurements
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 33
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i): . . . He] lived in [peace for more or less ?-]3 years; he left this world on day 2 of month October, indiction 7. May the Lord grant him rest eternal
(ii): [In this] tomb lies [ . . . ] Georgios [ . . .] he left this world [ . . .
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 33 and figs.82, 83, 84; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261
Images
Fig. 1. i: Drawing (Luigi Turba)
Fig. 2. Fragment: Drawing (Luigi Turba)
Fig. 3. ii: Drawing (Luigi Turba)