259. Fragmentary Christian funerary inscription
- Description:
- Fragment of a tomb-slab of sandstone (w: 0.70 x h: 0.30, no edges surviving) with remains of stuccoed surface.
- Text:
- Incised and red- painted lettering within a roughly incised rectangular border (die, approx. w: 0.60 x h: 0.22). A Chi-rho monogram fills the left margin, within the border.
- Letters:
- Lettering: 0.07-0.08
- Date:
- Unknown
- Findspot:
- Oea: Findspot unrecorded
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Tripoli Castle.
- 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:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
B
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
onae
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
emoriae
</ex>
V
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
oil
<unclear
reason=""
>
i
</unclear>
m
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
extentmax="3"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
in
pace
bix
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
it
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
/>
ann
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
os
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[To the good] memory of V[·· ? ··]oilim[·· ? ··] ; lived in peace [·· ? ··] years [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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