WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1190. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w: 1.47 x h: 0.41 x d: 0.55, supported on a plinth w: 0.16.
Text: Carefully incised and rubricated letters on the south face, with a double line beneath the text; only fragments of the text survive; there are three crosses in circles on the west face.
Letters: No measurements

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

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, cemetery, Tomb 50.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914)

Interpretive

a
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[---] September [---]
b
[---] INN [---]
[---] Ṛẹḳ[essit? ---]
c
------
[---] pl[us ---]

Diplomatic

a
------
------
[---]SEPTEMBER[---]
b
[---]INN[---]
[---]...[.....---]
c
------
[---]PL[..---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(a): . . . ] September [ . . .

(b): . . . ] ?he left [ . . . .

(c): . . . ] more [ . . .

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 50 and fig.114; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)