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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1247. 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

[.. ? ..]thi auo s[anu](th)

Diplomatic

[.. ? ..]THIAUOS[...]

1: Τηΐαχος(?) Bartoccini, 1928c

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

. . . lived years (?)

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

[.. ? ..]thi lived...y[ears]

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1928c 16, p. 196; p. 192, tav. I, n. 16, whence SEG 9.798 PHI 189670, Elmayer, 1997, 8, p.337; Kerr, 2010 212, no.3 (where see bibliography)

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