Christian funerary text (En-Ngila cemetery)
source date: Late 10th-early eleventh century CE, 8th indiction
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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In hoc tumulo iaket korpus bone memorie Fokion[...] Bixit miserikordia Dei plus minus annos L. Rekessit de ok sekulo sub die mesis bikeisima Dekembre indiktio oktaba. Requiem eternam det tibi Dominus et lux perpetua lukeat tibi. Ossa arida resurgetis et bibetis et bidebitis magestatem Dominui

[to the left of the cross] Sabaoth [within the cross] Dominus Deus [to the right of the cross] Χριστός

[i]:In this tomb lies the body of ? Fokion of good memory {he lived] by the mercy of Gof more or less 50 years. He left this world on the twentieth day in December, eighth indiction. May the Lord grant you rest eternal, and may light perpetual shine upon you. Dry bones, you will arise, and you will live and you will see the majesty of the Lord..

[ii]: Sabaoth: Lord God: Christ.

i. 2: D(e)i could perhaps be D(omin)i

i. 4: ossa arida: see Ezechiel 37, available at Perseus