217. Christian funerary inscription of Segeddutis
- Description:
- Marble panel (w: 0.35 x h: 0.25 x d: 0.25).
- Text:
- Inscribed one one face.
- Letters:
- Fourth century A.D.: 0.025-0.04; uncial G.
- 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"
/>
Ispiritus
<expan>
<abbr>
bon
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
e
</abbr>
<expan>
<abbr>
mem
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
ori
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
e
</abbr>
<expan>
<abbr>
tecu
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
m
</ex>
Segedd
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
utis
qui
bixit
an
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
nis
<num
value="60"
>
LX
</num>
plus
mi
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
nus
Translation:
In the holy spirit. To the good memory with you of Segeddutis (? Segeddus) who lived approximately 60 years.
Commentary:
Line 1, see Diehl, Inscr. Lat. Crist. Vet. III. 409, s.v. spiritus A.
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