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:
Inscribed within the tabula ansata.
Date: Fourth century CE (context)
Findspot: Syrtica: Sirte,
Hypogeum, in the piazza opposite the old Turkish barracks.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot
English translation
Translation by: Caroline Barron
Selhan lived 61 years (Chi-Rho symbol)
Flavianus lived 75 years
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1928c 9, p. 195; p. 192, tav. I, whence EDCS 75200105; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 855, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 855;
Images
None available (2021).