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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1289. Christian funerary text (Sabratha catacomb)

Description: Plaster fragment w: 0.30 x h: 0.29
Text: Graffito
Letters: 0.09-0.15

Date: Fourth-fifth centuries CE (context)

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

Interpretive

[---bene]dicta [---]
[--- com?]p̣ari [---]

Diplomatic

[---....]DICTA[---]
[---...].ARI[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] blessed [ . . . ] ?similar [ . . .

Bibliography: Nestori, 1973 11, whence EDCS 59800077

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