208. Christian funerary inscription of Iohannes

Description:
Re-used paving-slab (w: 0.50 x h: 0.50) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
0.035-0.045. 
Date:
Fifth-sixth century A.D. (context) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Church I, loose in the adjoining baptistry. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
R. Bartoccini, 'Le Basiliche cristiane del Foro di Sabratha', 18. 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) 
crux B(onae) m(emoriae) Iohannes
in XPO requieuit
uixit annu(m) unu(m)
m(enses) VIIII d(ies) XX s(ub die) XIII m(ensis)
5 Apr(ilis) ind(ictione) VIII
crux
crux BMIOHANNES
INXPOREQVIEVIT
VIXITANNVVNV
MVIIIIDXXSXIIIM
5APRINDVIII
crux
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="crux" > </g>
<expan>
<abbr>
B
</abbr>
<ex>
onae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
emoriae
</ex>
</expan>
Iohannes
<lb n="2" />
in
<orig >
XPO
</orig>
requieuit
<lb n="3" />
uixit
<expan>
<abbr>
annu
</abbr>
<ex>
m
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
unu
</abbr>
<ex>
m
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
enses
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="8" >
VIIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ies
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="20" >
XX
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ub die
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="13" >
XIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
ensis
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Apr
</abbr>
<ex>
ilis
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
ind
</abbr>
<ex>
ictione
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="8" >
VIII
</num>
<lb n="6" />
<g type="crux" > </g>
</ab>

Translation:

(cross) Of good memory, Joanes went to rest in Christ. He lived one year, nine months and twenty days (and was laid to rest) on the 13th April in indiction 8. (cross.)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 167)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 167)

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