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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1236. Christian funerary text (Sirte catacomb)

Description: Plaque of plaster, inscribed with the form of a tabula ansata. From a group originally plastered over the openings of loculi, which measure approximately: w: 1.75 x h: 0.45
Text: ii inscribed within the tabula ansata. Decorative pattern incised around the tabula ansata, i to the left and iii to the right.

Date: Fourth century CE (context)

Findspot: Syrtica: Sirte, Hypogeum, in the piazza opposite the old Turkish barracks.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

i
((Chi-Rho))
ii
ἔζεϲεν
Φαῦ<ϲ>τοϲ
ἔτη αλ̣´
iii
((Chi-Rho))

Diplomatic

i
ii
ΕΖΕϹΕΝ
ΦΑΥΤΟϹ
ΕΤΗΑ.
iii

ii.3: ἔτηα Δ Bartoccini, 1928c

English translation

Translation by: Caroline Barron

(ii): Faustus lived ? 31 years

Bibliography: Mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 855, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 855; Bartoccini, 1928c 5, p. 195; p. 192, tav. I, whence SEG 9.796, whence PHI 189668;

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