WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1183. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w: 1.81 x h: 0.33 x d: 0.75, supported on a plinth w: 0.21.
Text: Deeply and elegantly incised on the south face of the coffin.
Letters: No measurements

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

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, cemetery, Tomb 43.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914)

Interpretive

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[---]ỌỊḲẸỌỊḌ[---]
[---]FETUBELIḲN s(e)k(ul)o [..]EṂ[---]
[---]nitas sikut et Ị [c. 4]NDENỊ[---]

Diplomatic

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[---].......[---]
[---]FETUBELI.NSKO[··]E.[---]
[---]NITASSIKUTET.[····]NDEN.[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . He left this] world [ . . . ] just as [ . . .

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 43 and fig.101; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)