WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1252. 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: iii inscribed within the tabula ansata, i to the left of the tabula ansata, and ii above the left top corner.

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
((Chi-Rho))
ii
((Chi-Rho))
iii
Demetri
bixit an(nos) XXX

Diplomatic

i
ii
iii
DEMETRI
BIXITANXXX

English translation

Translation by: Caroline Barron

(iii): Demetri lived 30 years.

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1928c 21, p. 197; p. 192, tav. I, whence EDCS 75200117; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 855, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 855;

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