WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1215. Christian funerary text (En-Ngila cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface; no measurements.
Text: Incised on the upper face
Letters: Elegant uncials, 0.031-0.037

Date: Late 10th-early eleventh century CE (context)

Findspot: Tripoli: Christian cemetery among the sand-dunes at en-Ngila; excavated in 1973.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

((crux)) Bona me-
moria AUS
Bictorinus
bixit anos
5LXXV plus min<u>s
ed obdormib-
it in pace sub d<i>e
dodecim m(ensis) Ma-
rxiarum ((palm))

Diplomatic

BONAME
MORIAAUS
BICTORINUS
BIXITANOS
5LXXVPLUSMINS
EDOBDORMIB
ITINPACESUBDE
DODECIMMMA
RXIARUM

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Good memory. [ . . .] Victorinus lived more or less 75 years and fell asleep in peace on day 12 of the month of March.

Bibliography: Rizzardi, 197e, II pp.292-294 and figs. 10-12