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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1242. 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: 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

Interpretive

((Chi-Rho)) Aristho- ((Chi-Rho))
ne b(ixit) an(n)os AII

Diplomatic

ARISTHO-
NEBANOSAII

2: A (= X?) Bartoccini, 1928c

English translation

Translation by: Caroline Barron

(Chi-Rho symbol) Aristho(Chi-Rho symbol)n lived 12 (?) years

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1928c 11, p. 195; p. 192, tav. I, whence EDCS 75200107; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 855, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 855

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