219. Christian funerary inscription of Stidin

Description:
Re-used slab (w: 0.37 x h: 1.47) of grey marble. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
0.035-0.045.  
Date:
Fifth-seventh century A.D. (context, form)  
Findspot:
Sabratha: Church IIIIn situ in the S walk of the atrium. 
Original Location:
Findspot 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
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) 
crux
Α chi-rho Ω Hik requies-
cit bon(a)e mem-
ori(a)e Stidin
clericus bi-
5xit in pace
an(n)os VIIII et
req(u)iebit
in pace crux
crux
Α chi-rho ΩHIKREQVIES
CITBONEMEM
ORIESTIDIN
CLERICVSBI
5XITINPACE
ANOSVIIIIET
REQIEBIT
INPACE crux
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<g type="crux" > </g>
<lb n="1" />
Α
<g type="chi-rho" > </g>
Ω
Hik
requies
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
cit
<expan>
<abbr>
bon
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
mem
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
ori
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
Stidin
<lb n="4" />
clericus
bi
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
xit
in
pace
<lb n="6" />
<expan>
<abbr>
an
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
os
</abbr>
</expan>
<num value="9" >
VI
III
</num>
et
<lb n="7" />
<expan>
<abbr>
req
</abbr>
<ex>
u
</ex>
<abbr>
iebit
</abbr>
</expan>
<lb n="8" />
in
pace
<g type="crux" > </g>
</ab>

6, The reading is clear cf. Bull. Arch. 1919 CCXVI.

Translation:

(cross).(Alpha and Omega on either side of a monogram cross) . Here lies at rest Stidin, of good memory, a priest. He lived in peace for 9 years (sic) and went to rest in peace (cross)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.VII.21)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.VII.21)

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