<rs type="textType">Christian</rs> <rs type="textType">funerary</rs> inscriptionJ. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins

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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.

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Description of Monument

Two re-used paving-slabs of grey limestone (1.031.01 and 1.031.20).

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face.

Description of Letters

0.14-0.16; capitals, with uncial D in the last line.

Date

Fifth century A.D. (lettering, context)

Locations

Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in situ near 839, 843 in the small cemetery immediately North of the apse of Church II.

Findspot

Findspot

Bibliography

Bartoccini, VIII:46, no. 4.

Text constituted from

Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

Text Bonae memoriae Demetria filia Stefani loki serbatoris uixit in pacae annos III menses VI dies XIIII defuncta die martis mense Martio indictione VIII
Apparatus

ll. 3-4. Stefanus locus serbatorus. See also 834, 839, 840, 843

Translation

Monogram cross. To her good memory. Demetria, daughter of Stephanus, the guardian of this place. She lived in peace for three years, six months and fourteen days, and died on the day of Mars in the month of March, in the eighth indiction.

Commentary

The child died within two days of the two recorded in 839 and 843, evidently from some epidemic.

Photographs

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.XXI.13)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 1542)