Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w:
1.36 x h:
0.36 x d:
0.48,
supported on a plinth w:
0.06-0.10.
Text: Deeply incised with clear traces of rubrication on the south face of the coffin; there are double lines under each line of
text.
Letters: No measurements.
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 45
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
[In this] tomb lies the body of Iui[ . . . He lived ?in peace] for more or less [ . . . ]; he left this world on a day in December.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 45 and figs.103, 104; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261
Images
Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)