258. Christian funerary inscription for Tednus
- Description:
- Marble panel (w: 0.77 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.045).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Irregular late capitals: 0.04 0.08.
- Date:
- Unknown
- Findspot:
- Oea: The Forte della Vite. Found during demolition.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Tripoli Castle.
- Bibliography:
- Nuovo Bullettino di Archeologia cristiana, XXIV-XXV:38, no. 7; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1921:87. 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
A
<g
type="chi-rho"
>
</g>
M A
<g
type="chi-rho"
>
</g>
M A
<g
type="chi-rho"
>
</g>
M
<note>
sic
</note>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Bona
mem
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
oria
Tedni
<lb
n="4"
/>
bixit
<lb
n="5"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
an
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
orum
</abbr>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
(Alpha Mu around ChiRho three times); in good memory of ? Tednus; he lived [·· ? ··] years [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 691 leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.II.30)
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