Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w:
1.71 x h:
0.31 x d:
0.52,
supported on a plinth w:
0.14-0.16.
Text: Incised on the south face;there are designs of peacocks on the nrooth face, and of crosses on the east and west faces.
Letters: No measurementss
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 54.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914); the tomb was covered with sand shortly after discovery, and so could not be plotted on the plan
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
In this tomb is placed the body of Faustinus, of good memory, who was lovable to his own, dear in heart, whom a black day took ?in an accident, without sickeninh. He lived for more or less 19 years; he left this world on day 28 of month August, indiction 3. May the Lord give him rest eternal. Amen. All say amen, because he was loved.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 54 and figs.120, 121, 122, 123; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261
Fig. 1. Drawing from a cast (Stefani)
Fig. 2. North face: Drawing from a cast (Stefani)
Fig. 3. West face: Facsimile, from a cast
Fig. 4. East face: Facsimile, from a cast