Description:
Re-used paving-slab (w: 0.54 x h: 0.69) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
ll. 1-5, 0.055-0.065; l. 6 (minuscule), 0.03-0.04. 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Sabratha: Cemetery east of Church I, loose. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
R. Bartoccini, 'Le Basiliche cristiane del Foro di Sabratha', 17. 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 memo-
ri(a)e Ioanes
bixit in pac-
e an<n>os LXXXV
5 p(lu)s m(i)n(us) s⌜u⌝(b) d(ie) XXVII
me(nsis) Ianuar(i) ind(ictione) V
tau-rho
tau-rho BONEMEMO
RIEIOANES
BIXITINPAC
EAN<N>OSLXXXV
5PSMNS⌜V⌝DXXVII
MEIANVARINDV
tau-rho
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="tau-rho" > </g>
<expan>
<abbr>
Bon
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
memo
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
ri
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
Ioanes
<lb n="3" />
bixit
in
pac
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
e
an
<supplied reason="omitted" >
n
</supplied>
os
<num value="85" >
LXXXV
</num>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
lu
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
us
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
<choice>
<sic >
y
</sic>
<corr>
u
</corr>
</choice>
</abbr>
<ex>
b
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ie
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="27" >
XX
VI
I
</num>
<lb n="6" />
<expan>
<abbr>
me
</abbr>
<ex>
nsis
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Ianuar
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
ind
</abbr>
<ex>
ictione
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="5" >
V
</num>
<lb n="7" />
<g type="tau-rho" > </g>
</ab>

5, su(b)Written SY.

Translation:

( monogram cross) Of good memory, Joanes lived in peace for approximately 85 years (and died) on the 27th January in the fifth indiction. ( monogram cross)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VIII.34)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VIII.34)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VIII.34)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VIII.34)

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