WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1265. 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: i inscribed within the tabula ansata; ii incised to the right.

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
Teiu bibit ann(os) LXX
ii
((Chi-Rho))

Diplomatic

i
TEIUBIBITANNLXX
ii

1: bibit (= vivit per = vixit) Bartoccini, 1928c

English translation

Translation by: Caroline Barron

(i): Teius lived 70 years.

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1928c 34, p. 198; p. 193, tav. II, whence EDCS 75200130; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 855, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 855

Images

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