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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1270. 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 to the left of the tabula ansata and iii 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
((Chi-Rho))
ii
auo lim
sanut LII
iii
((Chi-Rho))

Diplomatic

i
ii
AUOLIM
SANUTLII
iii

1: Amolim Bartoccini, 1928c
2: SAN VCXII Bartoccini, 1928c

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

Amolim years 103

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

Lim lived 52 years.

English translation

Translation by: Caroline Barron

(ii): Lim lived 52 years.

Bibliography: Mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 855, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 855; Bartoccini, 1928c 39, p. 198; p. 193, tav. II, whence EDCS 75200134, Elmayer, 1997, 15, p.338, Kerr, 2010 214, no.7 (where see bibliography)

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