WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1181. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w: 1.78 x h: 0.36 x d: 0.775, supported on a plinth w: 0.12.
Text: Carefully incised on the south face of the coffin.
Letters: No measurements

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

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, cemetery, Tomb 41.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914)

Interpretive

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[---]ḅẹṛ ịṇdiktio X̣ṾỊ [---]

Diplomatic

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[---].....DIKTIO...[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . -]ber inction 16 [ . . .

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 41 and fig.98; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)