Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w:
1.62 x h:
0.41 x d:
0.51,
supported on a plinth w:
0.13-0.19.
Text: Deeply incised with traces of rubrication: i on the south face of the coffin, ii on the west face.
Letters: i: line 1, 0.58-0.75;; line 2, 0.38-0.56; line 3, 0.43-0.70; line 4, 0.50-0.64.
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 39
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914)
Interpretive
i
[In oc tumulo] [[i]ạc̣ẹṭ] c̣ọṛpus bone memorie Ịrasi. bi[xit in pake?]
ạṇọṣ p̣lus minus X̣ṾỊỊ; [Recesit] de oc secolo sub die menṣịṣ Ṣẹp̣ṭẹṃ(ber)
[qu]arta [d]ẹcima. Suscipia<t> te ((Chi-Rho))(istu)s qui bocabi<t> te. In sinu<m> Abrae
( vac. ) angeli dedu<ca>n<t> te. ( vac. ) ii
Diplomatic
i
[...............]...PUSBONEMEMORIE.RASIBI[.........]
.....LUSMINUS....[.......]DEOCSECOLOSUBDIEMEN.........
[..]ARTA[.].CIMASUSCIPIATE ☧ SQUIBOCABITEINSINUABRAE
ANGELIDEDUNTE ii
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
In this tomb lies the body of Irasius, of good memory. He lived [in peace] for more or less 17 years; he left this world on
day fourteen of month September. May Christ who has called you receive you; may angels escort you into the bosom of Abraham.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 39 and figs.94, 95; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261
Images
Fig. 1. i: Drawing (Luigi Turba)
Fig. 2. ii: Drawing (Luigi Turba)
