WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1198. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: A large plaster fragment from a tomb, w: 0.28-0.42 x h: 0.51.
Text: Incised, with traces of rubrication, on either side of a double line.
Letters: No measurements.

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

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, cemetery, Tomb 58.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914).

Interpretive

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[---] | Sạṇ(ctu)s-
iṇṃor | talis-
miser | e[r]e ṃ(e)i

Diplomatic

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[---] | S..S
I..OR | TALIS
MISER | E[.]E.I

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] Holy. Immortal. Have mercy on me.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 58 and fig.129; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)