194. Christian funerary inscription
- Description:
- Marble panel (w: 0.35 x h: 0.030 x d: 0.02).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Fourth century A.D.: 0.03-0.045.
- Date:
- Fourth century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: From the Catacomb to the E of the Theatre
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Sabratha Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. 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"
/>
<g
type="chi-rho"
>
</g>
spiritus
Athica
<g
type="chi-rho"
>
</g>
<lb
n="2"
/>
bonae
<expan>
<abbr>
memoria
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
e
</ex>
dulcis
<lb
n="3"
/>
nomen
anima
mellea
<lb
n="4"
/>
petimus
orationibus
tuis
<lb
n="5"
/>
exaudiat
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
os
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
uix
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
it
</ex>
<g
type="chi-rho"
>
</g>
<expan>
<abbr>
an
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
nos
</ex>
<num
value="67"
>
LXVII
</num>
Translation:
(Chi-Rho) The Soul of Athica (Chi-Rho). Of good memory, dear name, a honey-sweet spirit. We ask that by your prayers Christ (Chi-Rho) may hear us. She lived 67 years.
Commentary:
No comment.
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