Description: Very badly damaged tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w:
1.60 x h:
0.28 x d:
0.56,
supported on a plinth w:
0.13-0.16.
Text: Incised, i on the south face, ii below, running perhaps from the north face, along the west and onto the south face.
There are traces of a cross on the east face.
Letters: No measurements: larger than those on any other tomb in the area. In i, te in ligature; line 2 in smaller letters
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 52.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i): . . . ] may the name of God protect you [ . . . ] ?hoped for.
(ii): [Holy.?] Holy. Holy. God. Holy. Strong
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 52 and fig.117; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261
Images
Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)