262. Christian funerary texts from Christian cemetery
- Description:
- The tombs are of the same general form as those of the cemetery of Ain Zara (see 261). There is no record of any associated structure. Of the 14 texts recorded, 5 are precisely dated, to the years 945, 963, 980, 989 and 1003 respectively, and the cemetery belongs therefore to the closing phase of Arab tolerance prior to the renewed incursions of the eleventh century.
- Text:
- Inscribed in good uncial characters on the two long sides
- Letters:
- See Romanelli for individual inscriptions.
- Date:
- Findspot:
- Oea: Christian cemetery among the sand-dunes at en-Ngila (map ref. L 410550) 18 km. SSW of Tripoli, near Suani Ben Adem.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- For the texts, see Nuovo Bullettino di Archeologia cristiana, XXI :76-8; Paribeni, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, I: 75-82; A. Todesco, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, VI:79-81. A fuller publication by Bartoccini is in preparation. 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:
Translation:
Commentary:
[Material from these texts was incorporated within the indices of the 1952 volume, but is not included here, 2009].
- Photographs:
- none.
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