WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1276. 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.

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
Ϲατο<ρ>-
νῖνοϲ

Diplomatic

i
ii
ϹΑΤΟ
ΝΙΝΟϹ

English translation

Translation by: Caroline Barron

(ii): Saturninus.

Bibliography: Mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 855, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 855; Bartoccini, 1928c 45, p. 199, p. 193, tav. II, whence SEG 9.800, whence PHI 189672

Images

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