Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w:
1.62 x h:
0.65 x d:
0.68,
supported on a plinth w:
0.22-0.23.
Text: Inscribed and lavishly rubricated: i, on the south face of the coffin; ii on the west face, below a cross in a circle,
iii on the east face, below a cross in a circle. There is a design of fishes on the north face.
Letters: i: line 1, 0.10-0.118; line 2, 0.088-0.112; line 3, 0.063-0.117
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 31
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i): . . . He left] this world on day 16 of month June, indiction 1. May the Lord grant you rest eternal, and may light perpetual shine. Amen
(ii): Holy. Immortal.
(iii): Holy God.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 31 and figs.75, 76, 77, 78; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261
Images
Fig. 1. i: Facsimile, from a cast
Fig. 2. ii: Painting, from a cast
Fig. 3. iii: Painting, from a cast
Fig. 4. North face: Drawing (Luigi Turba)