WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1264. 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 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

Interpretive

i
((Chi-Rho))
ii
Theru bixit
nanos CXX
iii
((Chi-Rho))

Diplomatic

i
ii
THERUBIXIT
NANOSCXX
iii

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

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