Christian funerary text (En-Ngila cemetery)
source date: November 1003 CE: 6512 a.m.
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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In nomine in hoc tumulo iacet corpus bone memorie Speratus Petrus filius. Bixit in hoc seculo annos plus minus XXXX. Migrabit de hoc seculo in anno sexto millesimo DXII indictio secunda in mense Nobembre. Recuiem eternam abeat et bitam eternam possideat. Amen Amen Amen.

[...]qualis est dolor meus. Orate pro me sicut dixit apostolus Jacobus · orate Christum inbicem ut salbemini. Requiem eternam abeat et bitam eternam custodiat cum sanctis et electis omnibus. Amen

[i]: [In the name of Christ]: in this tomb lies the body of Speratus, son of Petrus, [of good memory]. He lived in this world more or less 40 years. He departed from this world in the six thousandth 512th year, second indiction, in the month November. May he have rest eternal and possess life eternal. Amen, Amen, Amen.

[ii]: . . . ] such as [my grief. Pray] for me as the Apostle James said: pray to Christ for one another so that you may be saved. May he have rest eternal and may he preserve life eternal with the saints and all the elect. Amen

ii.2-3: see Epistle of James, at Perseus.