WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1197. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface; recorded at speed, with no measurements.
Text: Incised on the south face.
Letters: No measurements.

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

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, cemetery, Tomb 57.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914); within a few days the tomb was covered with sand.

Interpretive

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-ius [---]
anos plus [--- de ok sek-]
ulo [---]

Diplomatic

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IUS[---]
ANOSPLUS[---.......-]
ULO[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . -]ius [ . . . ] years more [ or less . . . this wo]rld . . .

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 57 and fig.128; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)