216. Christian funerary inscription
- Description:
- The left half of a marble panel (surviving width, w: 0.26 x h: 0.25 x d: 0.018).
- Text:
- Inscribed within a tabella ansata.
- Letters:
- Fourth century A.D. 0.04-0.045; uncial U.
- Date:
- Fourth century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Catacomb to the E of the Theatre.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Sabratha Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. 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"
/>
Bonae
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
memori
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
ae
Nu
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
extentmax="3"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
bix
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
it
anni
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
s
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
2, Perhaps Nur[·· ? ··]
Translation:
Of good memory, Nu[·· ? ··] who lived [·· ? ··] years [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 857 Leica)
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