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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0260. Fragmentary Christian funerary inscription

Description: Right-hand side of a heavy marble panel, re-used as a tomb-slab (w: 0.35 x h: 0.67 x d: 0.08).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Rough late capitals: 0.05-0.07.

Date: Fifth-seventh centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Tripoli: Oea: Near the Bab el-G'edid.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tripoli Castle.

Interpretive

[Bonae me]m-
[oriae ---?]-enti
[---? ui]xit
[anno]s p(lus) m(inus)
5[---]II in(dictione) IIII

Diplomatic

[.......]M
[.....---?]ENTI
[---?..]XIT
[....]SPM
5[---]IIINIIII

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[To the good memory of---]entus; he lived approximately [? years and died---] in indiction 4.

Bibliography: Romanelli, 1919, 37 no. 5; IRT, 1952, 260, whence IRT, 2009, 260, whence EDH 059231; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 692 Leica)