207. Christian funerary inscription of Ioanes
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<g
type="tau-rho"
>
</g>
<expan>
<abbr>
Bon
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
e
</abbr>
<expan>
<abbr>
memo
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
ri
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
e
</abbr>
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>
</expan>
s
</abbr>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
us
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
<choice>
</abbr>
<sic
>
y
</sic>
<corr>
</choice>
u
</corr>
<ex>
</expan>
b
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ie
</ex>
<num
value="27"
>
XX
VI
I
</num>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
me
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
nsis
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Ianuar
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
i
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
ind
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ictione
</ex>
<num
value="5"
>
V
</num>
<lb
n="7"
/>
<g
type="tau-rho"
>
</g>
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:
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