WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1260. 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 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

Interpretive

i
((Chi-Rho))
ii
abdusmyn au(?)-
sanuth λ

Diplomatic

i
ii
ABDUSMYNAU
SANUTHΛ

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

Abdusmun liv[ed] 30 years

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)

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