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) 
[---]
2 qui legis ora
pro me pecc-
atore
[---]
2QVILEGISORA
PROMEPECC
ATORE
<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
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] you who read pray for me, a sinner.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 854 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 854 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VII.31)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VII.31)

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