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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1257. 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 is incised to the left of the tabula.

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
Pom[peia?]
aua(?)

Diplomatic

i
ii
POM[....]
AUA

2: ava (= vixit?), or a at the end of the name and v(ixit) a[nn(os)] Bartoccini, 1928c

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

Pom(pea) lived

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

Pompeia (?) lived.

English translation

Translation by: Caroline Barron

(ii): Pompeia (?) lived.

Bibliography: mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 855, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 855; Bartoccini, 1928c 26, p. 197; p. 192, tav. I, whence EDCS 75200121; Elmayer, 1997, 9, p.337, Kerr, 2010 212, no.4 (where see bibliography)

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