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.ii incised to the left, iii 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
2: RI (=XI?) Bartoccini, 1928c Kerr suggests Ρ (Greek numeral for 100) and I - so 101
English translation
Translation by: Caroline Barron
(ii): Peregrinia lived 11 (? or 101) years.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1928c 38, p. 198; p. 193, tav. II, whence EDCS 75200132; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 855, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 855
Images
None available (2021).