855. Christian funerary texts
- Description:
- Catacomb, explored and published by Bartoccini. Of the several hundred loculi, 53 preserved, in whole or in part, the inscriptions that had been roughly incised or painted on stucco over the sealing slabs. Not seen.
- Text:
- Roughly incised or painted on stucco over the sealing slabs. The texts are brief, and consist of the name of the deceased and simple variants of the formula bixit annos...; or in some cases (e.g. nos. 8, 15, 40, 50) the Punic equivalent "avo sanu..." usually within a tabella ansata; many are accompanied by the Chi-rho monogram, usually plain, exceptionally with α, ω.
- Letters:
- No description.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Sirtica: Catacomb opening off the main square at Sirte.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- For the texts, see the detailed publication by Bartoccini, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, II:187-200. 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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