<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

Re-used paving-slab (1.000.50) of grey limestone.

Description of Text

Very crudely inscribed, with many ligatures.

Description of Letters

l. 1, 0.12; l. 2, 0.10; l. 3, 0.08.

Date

Fifth century A.D. (context)

Locations

Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in situ between the Severan exedra and the Baptistry.

Findspot

Findspot

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text constituted from

Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

Text Bonae memoriae Sergi Mariae biuerunt annos plus minus septuaginta menses IX
Translation

Cross To the good memory of Sergius and Maria. They lived for approximately seventy years and nine months Cross

Commentary

No comment.

Photographs

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 760)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.34)