WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1271. 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 is incised to the left 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
alide
auo s[anu(th)]

Diplomatic

i
ii
ALIDE
AUOS[....]

2: avos (=vixit?) Bartoccini, 1928c

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

Alido lived . . . years

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

Alidus lived [.. ? ..] years.

Bibliography: Mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 855, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 855; Bartoccini, 1928c 40, pp. 198-199; p. 193, tav. II, whence EDCS 75200136, Elmayer, 1997, 17, p.338, Kerr, 2010 214, no.8 (where see bibliography)

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