199. Christian funerary inscription

Description:
Tomb-slab (w: 0.65 x h: 0.48) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on the face. 
Letters:
0.04-0.08. 
Date:
Fifth-sixth century A.D. (context)  
Findspot:
Sabratha: In situ in the cemetery to the E of Church I. 
Original Location:
Findspot 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
R. Bartoccini, 'Le Basiliche cristiane del Foro di Sabratha', no. 8. 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) 
tau-rho Bon(a)e memori(a)e
Crisomali bixit
in pace an(n)os LX plus
minus tau-rho
tau-rho BONEMEMORIE
CRISOMALIBIXIT
INPACEANOSLXPLVS
MINVS tau-rho
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="tau-rho" > </g>
<expan>
<abbr>
Bon
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
memori
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Crisomali
bixit
<lb n="3" />
in
pace
<expan>
<abbr>
an
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
os
</abbr>
</expan>
<num value="60" >
LX
</num>
plus
<lb n="4" />
minus
<g type="tau-rho" > </g>
</ab>

Translation:

(monogram cross) To the good memory of Crisomalus. He lived in peace for approximately 60 years. (monogram cross)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VIII.33)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VIII.33)

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