Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w:
1.62 x h:
0.57 x d:
0.66,
supported on a plinth w:
0.12-0.15.
Text: Carefully incised and rubricated on the south face of the coffin, with a double line painted between the lines.
Letters: Irregular: line 1, 0.07-0.085; lines 2-3, 0.06-0.07; line 4, 0.055
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 34
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
In this tomb lies the body of [Sil]vester, of good memory. He lived in peace for more or less 30 years; he left this world on day 5 of month March, indiction [?]
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 34 and fig.85; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261
Images
Fig. 1. Facsimile, from a cast