830. Christian invocation
- Description:
- Block of sandstone (w: 0.52 x h: 0.76 x d: 0.12), stuccoed on one face.
- Text:
- Inscribed in roughly incised, red-painted lettering. A rough T-shaped symbol (a cross ?) is scratched above the text.
- Letters:
- 0.07-0.12.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre.
- 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"
/>
Μα
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
κάρι
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
ος
<expan>
<abbr>
κ
</abbr>
<ex>
ύ
</ex>
<abbr>
ρ
</abbr>
<ex>
ιο
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
ς
</abbr>
Translation:
Blessed is the Lord.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXI.23)
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