Christian funerary text (En-Ngila cemetery)
source date: 15 August 969 CE: 6477 a.m.
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], VIII; mentioned and indexed [...], 262, whence mentioned [...], 262; [...] III

in hoc tumulo iacet corpus bone memorie [...] rus. Bixit annos plus minus XXX. Recessit de oc saeculo in anno VI millesimo CCCCLXXVII XV die in mense Agusto

o bos omnes qui transitis bias aspicite et bidete sic est dolor bester, sic est dolor meus. Orate pro me ut sic abeatis Deum adiutorem in diem iudicii. Amen

[i]: In this tomb lies the body of [ -]rus, of good memory. He lived more or less 30 years. He left this world in the year 6 thousand 477, day 15 in the month August.

[ii]: Oh all you who pass on the road, behold and [see] if your grief is such as my grief. Pray for me that thus I may have God as my helper in the day of judgement. Amen.

ii.1: See Lamentations 1.12, available at Perseus.