200. Christian funerary inscription

Description:
Marble slab (w: 0.60 x h: 0.23). 
Text:
Inscribed within a frame of four horizontal lines. 
Letters:
0.035-0.045. 
Date:
Fifth-sixth century A.D. (context) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: In situ at the head of a tomb 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. 14. 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) 
Α tau-rho Ω Hik req(u)iebit bon(a)e mem(oriae) {s}
Domin(i)ka bixit in pake an(n)os
dece(m) pl(us) m(inu)s s(ub) d(ie) III me(nsi)s Maii i(n)d(ictione) XI tau-rho
Α tau-rho ΩHIKREQIEBITBONEMEM{S}
DOMINKABIXITINPAKEANOS
DECEPLMSSDIIIMESMAIIIDXI tau-rho
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Α
<g type="tau-rho" > </g>
Ω
Hik
<expan>
<abbr>
req
</abbr>
<ex>
u
</ex>
<abbr>
iebit
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
bon
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
mem
</abbr>
<ex>
oriae
</ex>
</expan>
<sic >
s
</sic>
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Domin
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
<abbr>
ka
</abbr>
</expan>
bixit
in
pake
<expan>
<abbr>
an
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
os
</abbr>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
dece
</abbr>
<ex>
m
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pl
</abbr>
<ex>
us
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
inu
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ub
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ie
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="3" >
III
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
me
</abbr>
<ex>
nsi
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
</expan>
Maii
<expan>
<abbr>
i
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ictione
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="11" >
XI
</num>
<g type="tau-rho" > </g>
</ab>

Translation:

(Alpha and Omega on either side of a monogram cross) Here was laid to rest Dominica, of good memory; she lived in peace for approximately 10 years (and was buried) on the 3rd May in the eleventh indiction (monogram cross)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.VI.26)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.VI.26)

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