Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w:
2.01 x h:
0.40 x d:
0.53,
supported on a plinth w:
0.13-0.14.
Text: Carefully incised, i on the south face, with a double line beneath the text; ii on the west face, below a cross in circle.
Letters: No measurements
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Tripoli: Ain Zara,
cemetery, Tomb 49.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1911-1914)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i): . . . ]; he left [ . . . ] more or less 32 years on ? the fifteenth day, XV August, indiction 8 [ . . .
(ii): Holy. Strong.
Commentary
Lines 2-3: Aurigemma suggests that the day date was written out first in words and then in numbers.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1932, 49 and figs.112, 113; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 261, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 261
Images
Fig. 1. i: Drawing (Luigi Turba)t
Fig. 2. ii: Drawing (Luigi Turba)t