Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w:
2.05 x h:
0.60 x d:
0.72.
Text: Inscribed i on the south face, ii on the north face.
Letters: Large clear uncial letters
Date: 15 August 969 CE: 6477 a.m. (internal date)
Findspot:
Tripoli:
Christian cemetery among the sand-dunes at en-Ngila.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
1: in hoc tumulo iacet Paribeni, 1927
2: [c. 4] -us Paribeni, 1927
3: UI mil(e)s(im)o CCCC septuagesimo secundo Paribeni, 1927 ; UI mil(e)s(im)o CCCC septuagesimo secundo Paribeni, 1927 ; XV i(n)dic(tio) Paribeni, 1927
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i): In this tomb lies the body of [ -]rus, of good memory. He lived more or less 30 years. He left this world in the year 6 thousand 477, day 15 in the month August.
(ii): Oh all you who pass on the road, behold and [see] if your grief is such as my grief. Pray for me that thus I may have God as my helper in the day of judgement. Amen.
Commentary
ii.1: See Lamentations 1.12, available at Perseus.
Bibliography: Paribeni, 1927, VIII; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 262, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 262; Bartoccini, 1977 III