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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1193. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Badly damaged tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w: 1.73 x h: 0.31 x d: 0.52, supported on a plinth w: 0.14-0.16.
Text: Incised, i on the east face, ii on the west face; no traces survive on the south face.
Letters: No measurementss

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

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, cemetery, Tomb 53.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914)

Interpretive

i
((crux))
[S(an)c(tu)s?]
[imm-]
ọṛṭạ-
5lis
ii
------
det ((crux)) tibi Dẹ[us]

Diplomatic

i

[...]
[...-]
....
5LIS
ii
------
DET TIBID.[..]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i): [Holy?]. Immortal.

(ii): . . . ] may God give to you.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 53 and figs.118, 119; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. Facsimile, from a cast

   Fig. 2. Facsimile, from a cast