260. Fragmentary Christian funerary inscription

Description:
Right-hand side of a heavy marble panel, re-used as a tomb-slab (w: 0.35 x h: 0.67 x d: 0.08). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Rough late capitals: 0.05-0.07. 
Date:
Unknown  
Findspot:
Oea: Near the Bab el-G'edid, Tripoli 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle. 
Bibliography:
Nuovo Bullettino di Archeologia cristiana, XXIV-V:37 no. 5. 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) 
[Bonae me]m-
[oriae ·· ? ··?]enti
[·· ? ··?] [ui]xit
[anno]s p(lus) m(inus)
5[·· ? ·· - - - ]II in(dictione) IIII
[·········]M
[········ ? ··?]ENTI
[·· ? ··?][···]XIT
[·····]SPM
5[·· ? ·· - - - ]IIINIIII
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Bonae
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
me
</supplied>
m
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
oriae
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" id="gap1" />
enti
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" id="gap2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ui
</supplied>
xit
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
anno
</supplied>
s
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
lus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
inus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<num >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" extentmax="4" />
II
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
in
</abbr>
<ex>
dictione
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="4" >
IIII
</num>
</ab>

Translation:

[To the good memory of·· ? ··]entus; he lived approximately [? years and died·· ? ··] in indiction 4.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 692 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 692 Leica)

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