829. Christian invocation, with monogram
- Description:
- Column of cipollino, after re-use, h: 2.50 above pavement-level.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- 0.03.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Colonnaded Street; Re-used in the South West nave arcade of the small Church beside the street, to the South West of the Forum Severianum.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- 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"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Κ
</abbr>
<ex>
ύρι
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
ε
</abbr>
<expan>
<abbr>
βο
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ήθει
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
monogram
Translation:
Lord help [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
For the use of this formula in Africa, see Rev. Arch. 1903, ii, 68.
Photographs:
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