WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1266. 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, with the exception of line 4 which is beneath it. ii to the right 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
DEBIXIT
NVBALSILRↃE
bixit Mamar ann(os) III
ii
((Chi-Rho))

Diplomatic

i
DEBIXIT
NVBALSILRↃE
BIXITMAMARANNIII
ii

1: The first part of line 2 may read Nubal, for the indigenous name Nubeline Bartoccini, 1928c

English translation

Translation by: Caroline Barron

(i): he died (?)
Nubal (?)
Mamar lived 3 years.

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1928c 35, p. 198; p. 193, tav. II, whence EDCS 75200131; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 855, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 855

Images

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