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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1152. Christian funerary text (Ain Zara cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface 0.025 thick; w: 1.30 x h: 0.48 x d: 0.42, supported on a plinth w: 0.19-0.23.
Text: Inscribed, in deeply cut rubricated letters on the south face. There is a St Andrew's cross on the east face.
Letters: No measurements

Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)

Findspot: Tripoli: Ain Zara, cemetery, Tomb 12.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1911-1914)

Interpretive

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[bi]x̣[it annos plus] ṃin[u]s rekeṣit
de ok ṣẹḳulo suḅ ḍịẹ X̣X̣Ị ṃensis
Feḅṛuarias ind(iktio) VI. In Requ<i>ẹm. Amen.

Diplomatic

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[..].[...........].IN[.]S.REKE.IT
DEOK...ULOSU........ENSIS
FE..UARIASINDVIINREQU.MAMEN

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] He lived for more or less 10 years; he left this world on day 21 of the month of February, indiction 6, into rest eternal. Amen. first indiction.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 12 and fig.40; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261

Images

   Fig. 1. Drawing (Luigi Turba)