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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1288. Christian funerary text (Sabratha catacomb)

Description: Wall plaster
Text: Painted in red
Letters: 0.10

Date: Fourth-fifth centuries CE (context)

Findspot: Sabratha: Catacomb, arcosolium A10
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

((Chi-Rho)) UI[...sp]iritus
[... uixit] anos n(umero) LXX p[lus m(inus) ...]

Diplomatic

UI[···..]IRITUS
[···.....]ANOSNLXXP[....···]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . lived ] 70 years in number m[ore or less . . .

Bibliography: Nestori, 1973 11, whence EDCS 59800075

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