Description:
Tomb-slab (w: 0.56 x h: 2.04), consisting of a split segment of a marble column. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
l. 1, 0.12; ll. 2-6, 0.06. 
Date:
Fifth-sixth century A.D. (context) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Cemetery east of Church IIn situ. 
Original Location:
Findspot 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
R. Bartoccini, 'Le Basiliche cristiane del Foro di Sabratha', 11. 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 crux Ω
crux Marcella crux
bon(a)e memori(a)e
in (Christ)o requieuit
5 d(ie) k(alendarum) Ianuariarum
crux ind(ictione) θ crux
Α crux Ω
crux MARCELLA crux
BONEMEMORIE
INΧΡOREQVIEVIT
5DKIANVARIARVM
crux INDΘ crux
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Α
<g type="crux" > </g>
Ω
<lb n="2" />
<g type="crux" > </g>
Marcella
<g type="crux" > </g>
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
bon
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
memori
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
in
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
ΧΡ
</am>
</abbr>
<ex>
Christ
</ex>
<abbr>
o
</abbr>
</expan>
requieuit
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ie
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
k
</abbr>
<ex>
alendarum
</ex>
</expan>
Ianuariarum
<lb n="6" />
<g type="crux" > </g>
<expan>
<abbr>
ind
</abbr>
<ex>
ictione
</ex>
</expan>
θ
<g type="crux" > </g>
</ab>

Translation:

(Alpha and Omega on either side of a cross) (cross) Marcella (cross) Of good memory, she went to rest in Christ on January the first, in the ninth indiction. (cross)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 1586)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 1586)

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