256. Christian funerary inscription for Ianes
- Description:
- Tomb. Not seen.
- Text:
- Not seen.
- Letters:
- Unknown
- Date:
- Unknown
- Findspot:
- Oea: A tomb to the S of the main cemetery at Ain Zara , one of a group seen and briefly recorded by Aurigemma in 1913 (see 261).
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1913)
- Bibliography:
- S. Aurigemma, L'Area cemeteriale cristiana di Ain Zara (Studi di Antichità cristiana pubblicati per cura del Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana V), Rome, 1932, 169- 170. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.
- Text constituted from:
- Previous publications
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
In
</supplied>
<unclear
reason=""
>
ok
</unclear>
tumulo
<lb
n="2"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
p
</unclear>
ositus
est
<lb
n="3"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
b
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
onae
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
emoriae
</ex>
Ianes
biksit
<lb
n="4"
/>
in
pake
<expan>
<abbr>
pl
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
us
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
inus
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
an
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
nos
</ex>
<num
value="30"
>
XXX
</num>
<lb
n="5"
/>
rekiebit
<expan>
<abbr>
su
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
b
</ex>
karta
<lb
n="6"
/>
decima
mensis
Aprilis
</ab>
Translation:
[In] this tomb is buried Ianes of good memory; he lived in peace approximately 30 years and went to rest on the 14th of the month of April.
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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