Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w:
1.30 x h:
0.48 x d:
0.52,
supported on a plinth w:
0.12-0.13.
Text: Incised i, deeply and with rubrication, on the south face, ii on the east face, below a cross in circle. There are also some
fragments found near the tomb.
Letters: No measurements
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 48.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i): . . . he] lived in peace [ . . . ]; he left this world on [day . . . ] August, indiction 5. Rest eternal.
(ii): Holy. Strong.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 48 and figs.109, 110, 111; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261
Images
Fig. 1. i: Facsimile, from a cast
Fig. 2. ii: Facsimile, from a cast
Fig. 3. Fragments: Drawing (Luigi Turba)