227. Fragmentary Christian funerary inscription
- Description:
- Re-used paving-slab (w: 0.48 x h: 0.34, incomplete) of brown limestone of the type characteristic of late paving at Sabratha; the second of two comprising a tomb-inscription.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face. Below the text is a crudely drawn plant.
- Letters:
- 0.04-0.55; minuscule A.
- 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"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
or
</supplied>
a
pro
me
<expan>
<abbr>
pec
</abbr>
<ex>
c
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
atrice
</abbr>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] pray for me, a sinful woman.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.VIII.6)
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