WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1191. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w: 1.89 x h: 0.41 x d: 0.52, supported on a plinth w: 0.19-0.21.
Text: Deeply incised and rubricated, i on the south face, with double lines under each line, ii on the east face, below a cross in circle.
Letters: No measurements

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

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, cemetery, Tomb 51.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914)

Interpretive

i
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[---] Ṛẹc̣ẹṣ[sit de ok]
[seku]ḷọ ṣụ[b di]ẹ ṃẹnṣị[s] Septenb<e>r indiktio XV.
ii
((crux))
S(anctu)s For(tis)

Diplomatic

i
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[---].....[.......]
[....]....[...]...N..[.]SEPTENBRINDIKTIOXV
ii

SSFOR

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i): . . . ] he left [this] world on a day of month September, indiction 15.

(ii): Holy. Strong.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 51 and figs.112, 113; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. i: Drawing (Luigi Turba)

   Fig. 2. ii: Drawing (Luigi Turba)