Christian funerary text (En-Ngila cemetery)
source date: 981 CE: 6489 anno mundi)
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Anno sexto millensimo quarientiesimo LXXXVIIII In ok tumulo iacet corpus bone memorie Maria uxor Karine. Bixit in ok seculo plus minus annos LV Requiem eternam abeat et bitam eternam possideat

O bos omnes qui transitis biam et qui [...]te bidete, si est dolor meus qualis est amor bester. Orate pro me in diem iudicii ut salba amen amen

Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaot Dominus Deus Sabaot

[^a1: at ii.3: salba ama . . . | salbam am(en)]

[i]: In the year six thousand, four hundred and 89. In this tomb lies the body of Maria, of good memory, wife of Karinus. She lived in this world more or less 55 years. May she have rest eternal, and may she possess life eternal.

[ii]: Oh all you who pass on the road and who [ . . . ], see if my grief is such as your love. Pray for me in the day of judgement that I will be saved. Amen, Amen.

[iii]: Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Sabaoth Lord God Sabaoth.

ii: See Lamentations 1.12, available at Perseus.