Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface,
w:
2.43 x h:
0.73 x d:
0.88.
Text: Inscribed i on the south-west face, ii on the north east face.
Letters: Large clear uncial letters
Date: October 989 CE: 6498 a.m. (internal date)
Findspot:
Tripoli:
Christian cemetery among the sand-dunes at en-Ngila.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
i.2: anno VIMILOCCCC Paribeni, 1927
ii.3: salba ama . . . Romanelli, 1915; salbam am(en) Paribeni, 1927
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i): In Christ. In this tomb lies the body of [ ?of good memory . . . he passed from this] world in the year six thousand, 400 [and ninety]eight, third indiction [ . . . ] day 4 in the month October. May he have rest eternal.
(ii): I will hope [in you Lord] that I may not be confounded for eternity. In your justice liberate me and rescue me, my God and my Lord and my Saviour. Pray for me that I may have God as my protector in the day of judgement. Amen, Amen, Amen.
Bibliography: Paribeni, 1927, II, recopied as XII; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 262, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 262; Bartoccini, 1977 V