Christian funerary text (En-Ngila cemetery)
source date: 945 CE (6454 a.m.)
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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In oc tumulo iaceiit corpus bone memorie Andreas. Binxit annos plus minus XXXXV. exit de hoc saeculo anno sestio milleisimo quarientesimo LIIII indictio qarta in mense Deceber dies XII ante natiuitas Domini nostri Iesu Christi

o bos omnes qui transitis per uiam bidete et aspicite si est dolor bester sic est dolor meus. Orate pro me ut sic abeatis Deum adiutorem sicut dixit Jacobus apostolus. Orate Christum inbicem ut salbemini Amen

Sanctus immortalis

Sanctus

[i]: In this tomb lies the body Andreas, of good memory. He lived more or less 45 years. [He left this world] in the six thousandth four hundredth 54 year, fourth indiction, the month December, day 12 before the nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ.

[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, as the Apostle James said: pray to Christ for one another so that you may be saved. Amen

[iii]: Holy, Immortal.

[iv]: Holy.

ii.1-2: See Lamentations 1.12, available at Perseus.

ii.2-4: See Epistle of James, available at Perseus.