<rs type="textType">Christian</rs> <rs type="textType">funerary</rs> inscription for Helladios J. M. Reynolds J. B. Ward-Perkins Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London IRT256a

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J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.

The right-hand part of a marble panel. (surviving width 0.46 0.38 0.04 , surface badly worn). Not seen.

Inscribed on the surviving face. Roughly incised lettering: 0.02-0.025.

Unknown

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Oea: Tripoli. Seen and recorded in Tripoli in the early part of the nineteenth century. Rediscovered near the church of Santa Maria in Tripoli.

Tripoli Castle.

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Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

Text Εὐμοιριτο Ἑλλάδιος ἔζησε ἔτι ν πλέον ἔλαττον μῆνες γ ἡμέρας δεκαπέντε ὁ Χριστὸς μετὰ τοῦ πνεύματός σου ἐτελεύτισεν μινὶ Παυνὶ ἑβδόμι κατὰ τοὺς Ἄφρους
Apparatus

The supplied letters are no longer legible.

Translation

May he be well off. Helladios lived approximately 50 years, three months and fifteen days. Christ be with your spirit. He died on the seventh of the month of Payn among the Africans.

Commentary

The text evidently refers to an Egyptian who died abroad.

Photographs

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.I.4)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 697 Leica)