WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1280. 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

[.. ? ..] bix(it) ann(os) XX[UI]

Diplomatic

[.. ? ..]BIXANNXX[..]

English translation

Translation by: Caroline Barron

[.. ? ..]lived 26 years.

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1928c 49, p. 199, whence EDCS 75200144; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 855, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 855

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