WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1188. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w: 1.30 x h: 0.48 x d: 0.52, supported on a plinth w: 0.12-0.13.
Text: Incised i, deeply and with rubrication, on the south face, ii on the east face, below a cross in circle. There are also some fragments found near the tomb.
Letters: No measurements

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

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, cemetery, Tomb 48.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914)

Interpretive

i
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[---bix]ịṭ ịṇ p̣ạḳẹ ạ[nnos ---]
[---]. [Re]kessit de ok seḳụḷọ ṣ[ub die ---]
[---] Agustu<s> ind(ikt)io V. Req<u>iem eter[nam].
ii
((crux))
S(an)c(tu)s Fọṛ(ti)s

Diplomatic

i
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[---...].........[....---]
[---..]KESSITDEOKSE.....[.....---]
[---]AGUSTUINDIOVREQIEMETER[...]
ii

SCSF..S

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i): . . . he] lived in peace [ . . . ]; he left this world on [day . . . ] August, indiction 5. Rest eternal.

(ii): Holy. Strong.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 48 and figs.109, 110, 111; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. i: Facsimile, from a cast

   Fig. 2. ii: Facsimile, from a cast

   Fig. 3. Fragments: Drawing (Luigi Turba)