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 on either side 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
1: The n of nanos may have its own value, e.g. n(umero?) Bartoccini, 1928c
English translation
Translation by: Caroline Barron
(ii): Thereus (?) lived 120 years
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1928c 33, p. 198; p. 192, tav. II, whence EDCS 75200129; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 855, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 855
Images
None available (2021).