WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1184. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w: 1.70 x h: 0.40 x d: 0.77, supported on a plinth w: 0.16.
Text: Incised i on the south face of the coffin, ii below a cross within a circle on the east face..
Letters: No measurements

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

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, cemetery, Tomb 44.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914)

Interpretive

i
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[---]o XXV Ianuạṛ[iu]ṣ L[---]
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ii
((crux)) [---]D(omi)n(u)s[---]

Diplomatic

i
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[---]OXXVIANU..[..].L[---]
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ii
[---]DNS[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i): . . . he left this] world on day 25 of January [ . . .

(ii): . . . ] Lord [ . . .

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 44 and fig.102; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)