WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1256. 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 and iii to the left and the right of the incised 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
Rogate
bixit ann(os) LXXIII
iii
((Chi-Rho))

Diplomatic

i
ii
ROGATE
BIXITANNLXXIII
iii

English translation

Translation by: Caroline Barron

(ii): Rogatus lived 73 years

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1928c 25, p. 197; p. 192, whence EDCS 75200122; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 855, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 855;

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