226. Fragmentary Christian funerary inscription
- Description:
- Fragmentary marble slab, incomplete in height (w: 0.48 x h: 0.62 x d: 0.12), part of a tomb-inscription.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- 0.07-0.08.
- Date:
- Fifth-sixth century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Cemetery between the Basilica and the Antonine Temple. (Bartoccini, MS notes)
- 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:
- Bartoccini MS notes; transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
qui
legis
ora
<lb
n="3"
/>
pro
me
pecc
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
atore
Translation:
[·· ? ··] you who read pray for me, a sinner.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 854 Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VII.31)
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