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
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)
Images
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