Christian funerary text (En-Ngila cemetery)
source date: 1021 CE: 6529 a.m., indiction IV
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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In hoc tumulo iacet corpus bone memorie . . . Bixit plus minus in hoc seculo annos [...] sub quartadecima die mensis [...] in anno VI millesimo DXXVIIII indictio quarta migrabit de hoc seculo Requiem eternam abeat et bitam eternam possideat, cum sanctis et electis Amen,.

[In this tomb lies the body, ? of good memory. He lived] in this world [more or less] [?] years [ . . . ] on the fourteenth [day of the month ? ], in the year [6 thousand]529, fourth indiction, on the first day of the month March he passed from this world. May he have rest eternal, and may he possess life eternal, wth all the saints. Amen, Amen, Amen. I will hope in you Lord that I may not be confounded for eternity.