213. Christian funerary inscription of Marcella
- 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)
<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>
</expan>
e
</abbr>
<expan>
<abbr>
memori
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
e
</abbr>
<lb
n="4"
/>
in
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
</abbr>
ΧΡ
</am>
<ex>
Christ
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
o
</abbr>
requieuit
<lb
n="5"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ie
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
k
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
alendarum
</ex>
Ianuariarum
<lb
n="6"
/>
<g
type="crux"
>
</g>
<expan>
<abbr>
ind
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ictione
</ex>
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.
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