193. Christian funerary inscription
- Description:
- Re-used paving-slab (w: 0.40 x h: 0.64) of grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on surviving face.
- Letters:
- Fifth-sixth century A.D.0.045-0.07; uncial Q.
- Date:
- Fifth-sixth century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: In situ in the cemetery in the South Forum Portico.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- R. Bartoccini, 'Le Basiliche cristiane del Foro di Sabratha', no. 4. 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:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Α
<g
type="tau-rho"
>
</g>
Ω
<expan>
<abbr>
Bon
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
e
</abbr>
me
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
moriae
<lb
n="3"
/>
Angelas
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
bix
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
it
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
n
pace
<lb
n="5"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
an
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
os
</abbr>
<num
value="13"
>
XIII
</num>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
pl
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
us
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
inus
</ex>
requie
<lb
n="7"
type="worddiv"
/>
bit
die
<expan>
<abbr>
cal
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
endas
</ex>
Ap
<lb
n="8"
type="worddiv"
/>
riles
<g
type="spray"
>
</g>
Translation:
Alpha and Omega (for "the first and the last" )on either side of a monogram cross.
To the good memory of Angela; she lived in peace for approximately 13 years and went to rest on the first of April.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
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