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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1207. Christian funerary text (En-Ngila cemetery)

Description: Tomb of rubble, with a plaster surface, w: 1.30 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.50.
Text: Inscribed i on the south face, ii on the north face.
Letters: Large clear uncial letters

Date: Late 10th-early eleventh century CE (context)

Findspot: Tripoli: Christian cemetery among the sand-dunes at en-Ngila.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

i
ịṇ ḥọc̣ ṭụṃụḷọ iacet corpus b(o)ne
mem(o)r(i)e Solomonine. Bita<m> eternam
ii
[---]M
[---]um querunt me D(omi)n(u)s anim[am]
adsumsit me[am?]

Diplomatic

i
...........IACETCORPUSBNE
MEMRESOLOMONINEBITAETERNAM
ii
[---]M
[---]UMQUERUNTMEDNSANIM[..]
ADSUMSITME[..]

i.2: Bit. aeternam Paribeni, 1927

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i): In this tomb lies the body of Solomoninus, of good memory. Life eternal.

(ii): . . . ?when] they ask me, the Lord has accepted my soul.

Bibliography: Paribeni, 1927, VII; mentioned and indexed IRT, 1952, 262, whence mentioned IRT, 2009, 262; Bartoccini, 1977 X