220. Christian funerary inscription of Teodora

Description:
Re-used paving-slab (w: 0.30 x h: 0.58) of grey limestone., one of four in situ over a grave in the cemetery in the S Forum Portico. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
0.035-0.05. 
Date:
Fifth-sixth century A.D. (context) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: The cemetery in the South Forum Portico. 
Original Location:
Findspot 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
R. Bartoccini, 'Le Basiliche cristiane del Foro di Sabratha', 5. 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) 
tau-rho Bon(a)e memori(a)e
Teodora bixit
in pace an[n]os
X plus minus tau-rho
tau-rho BONEMEMORIE
TEODORABIXIT
INPACEAN[··]OS
XPLVSMINVS tau-rho
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="tau-rho" > </g>
<expan>
<abbr>
Bon
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
memori
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Teodora
bixit
<lb n="3" />
in
pace
an
<supplied reason="lost" >
n
</supplied>
os
<lb n="4" />
<num value="10" >
X
</num>
plus
minus
<g type="tau-rho" > </g>
</ab>

3, Or an(n)os, inscribed around a blemish in the stone.

Translation:

(monogram cross) Of good memory; Teodora lived in peace for approximately 10 years (monogram cross)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VIII.30)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VIII.30)

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