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 above the top left-hand corner 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
1: Abdusmun ax = [vi]x(it?) Bartoccini, 1928c
2: SANNCHA Bartoccini, 1928c
English translation
Translation source: Elmayer, 1997
Abdusmun lived years 102
English translation
Translation source: Kerr, 2010
English translation
Translation by: Caroline Barron
(ii): Abdusmun liv[ed] 30 years
Bibliography: Mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 855, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 855; Bartoccini, 1928c 29, p. 193; p. 197, tav. II, whence EDCS 75200125, Elmayer, 1997, 10, p.337, Kerr, 2010 213, no.5 (where see bibliography)
Images
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