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221. Christian funerary inscription of Theodorus

Description:: Wedge-shaped tomb-slab (w: 0.32 and 0.25 x h: 0.75) of local sandstone.
Text:: Inscribed on one face.
Letters:: l. 1 (capitals, uncial E), 0.035; ll. 2-6 (minuscule), 0.015-0.35.
Date:: Fifth-seventh century A.D. (context, form)
Findspot:: Sabratha: Cemetery SE of Church III. In situ near 206.
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 Bon(ae) m(em)or(ia)e Hte-
odorus uixit in
pace ann(os) p(lus) m(inus) XX
et requi(e)uit cum
5patr[e] ḄṢ m(ense) Iulio
[···] ind(ictione) qu(i)nta Ω tau-rho Α

crux BONMOREHTE
ODORVSVIXITIN
PACEANNPMXX
ETREQVIVITCVM
5PATR[··]··MIVLIO
[···]INDQVNTAΩ tau-rho Α

<ab>

<expan>

<abbr>

Bon

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

</expan>

Hte

odorus

uixit

pace

<expan>

<abbr>

ann

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

lus

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

inus

</ex>

</expan>

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

requi

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

uit

</abbr>

</expan>

cum

patr

</supplied>

<orig >

</unclear>

</orig>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ense

</ex>

</expan>

Iulio

<expan>

<abbr>

ind

</abbr>

<ex>

ictione

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

nta

</abbr>

</expan>

</ab>

1, Hteodorus: sic

Translation:

(cross) Of good memory, Theodorus lived in peace for approximately 20 years and went to rest with ? the blessed Father, in the month of July [·· ? ··] fifth indiction. (Omega and alpha on either side of a monogram cross.)