Christian funerary text (En-Ngila cemetery)
source date: 1017 CE?: 6525 a.m.?
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], III; mentioned and indexed [...], 262, whence mentioned [...], 262; [...] VII

in nomine in hoc tumulo iacet corpus bone memorie Petrus klarissimus iudex. Bixit in hoc seculo annos sexaginta plus minus: in anno VI millesimo[...] indictio quintadecima in prima die mense Martiu migrabit de hoc seculo. Requiem eternam abeat et bitam eternam possideat, cum sanctis et electis omnibus Amen, Amen, Amen. In te Domine sperabi non confundar in eternum.

In the name of Christ. In this tomb lies the body, Peter, [very dear] judge. He lived in this world more or less ?sixty years. In the year 6 thousand [ . . . ] fifteenth indiction, on the first day of the month March he passed from this world. May he have rest eternal, and may he possess life eternal, wth all the saints. Amen, Amen, Amen. I will hope in you Lord that I may not be confounded for eternity.

The date is suggested by the indiction number

The age might be sixty, or se[ptuaginta, seventy