222. Fragment of Christian funerary inscription
- Description:
- Tomb-slab (measurements not recorded) of local sandstone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on a plaster surface, which was much damaged when found and appears since completely to have perished.
- Letters:
- Lettering (mixed capitals and uncials): size not recorded.
- Date:
- Fifth-seventh century A.D. (context, form)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Church III. Found nearby. The text is known from a photograph only.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- 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:
- Transcribed from the photograph (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Bonae
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
me
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
moriae
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
di
q
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ui
</supplied>
<lb
n="4"
/>
bixi
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
t
</supplied>
<lb
n="5"
/>
in
pac
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
e
</supplied>
<lb
n="6"
/>
an
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
nos
</supplied>
<lb
n="7"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
m
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
enses
</supplied>
<lb
n="8"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="9"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
su
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
b
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ie
</ex>
<num
value="13"
>
XIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
men
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</abbr>
s
</supplied>
<ex>
</expan>
is
</ex>
<lb
n="10"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Oc
</supplied>
<unclear
reason=""
>
t
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ob
</supplied>
<unclear
reason=""
>
r
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
is
</supplied>
Translation:
[Of good memory·· ? ··]dus who lived in peace for [·· ? ··] years, [? months, ?days and went to rest] on the 13th day of October.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
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