206. Christian funerary inscription of Ioanes
- Description:
- Re-used paving-slab (w: 0.40 x h: 0.42) of brown limestone, of the type characteristic of late paving at Sabratha.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- 0.05-0.08.
- Date:
- Fifth-seventh century A.D. (context, form)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Cemetery SE of Church IIIIn situ near 221.
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- 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="crux"
>
</g>
Ioane
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
s
<expan>
<abbr>
bon
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
e
</abbr>
<expan>
<abbr>
me
<lb
n="3"
/>
mori
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
e
</abbr>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
bix
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
t
</abbr>
an
<supplied
reason="omitted"
>
n
</supplied>
os
<lb
n="5"
/>
<num
value="90"
>
LXXXX
</num>
Translation:
(cross) Joanes, of good memory, lived 90 years.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
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