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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1246. 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: i inscribed within the tabula ansata. ii to the right of 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

i
Mercuri
au sanu
VI
ii
((Chi-Rho))

Diplomatic

i
MERCURI
AUSANU
VI
ii

2: avos (=vixit?) ann(os) Bartoccini, 1928c

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

Mercuriu lived years VI

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

Mercurius lived 6 years.

English translation

Translation by: Caroline Barron

(i): Mercurius lived 6 years.

Bibliography: Mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 855, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 855 Bartoccini, 1928c 15, p. 196; p. 192, tav. I, whence EDCS 75200111, Elmayer, 1997, 7, Kerr, 2010 211-212, no.2 (where see bibliography)

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