WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1254. 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: ii inscribed within the tabula ansata. i to the left 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
((Chi-Rho))
ii
Domit(ius)
bixit ann(os) XX

Diplomatic

i
ii
DOMIT
BIXITANNXX

1: Domit(ius/ia or illa) Bartoccini, 1928c

English translation

Translation by: Caroline Barron

(ii): Domitius lived 20 years.

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1928c 23, p. 197, no. 23; p. 192, tav. I, whence EDCS 75200119; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 855, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 855

Images

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