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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1274. 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: Inscribed within 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

[.. ? ..]sanu III
[.. ? ..]sa[nu]

Diplomatic

[.. ? ..]SANUIII
[.. ? ..]SA[..]

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

. . . years 3

English translation

Translation source: Kerr, 2010

[.. ? ..lived] 3 years.
[.. ? ..]ye[ars]

English translation

Translation by: Caroline Barron

[.. ? ..lived] 3 years[.. ? ..]ye[ars]

Bibliography: Mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 855, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 855; Bartoccini, 1928c 43, p. 199, whence EDCS 75200141, Elmayer, 1997, 18, p.338, Kerr, 2010 215, no.9 (where see bibliography)

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