Description:
Two slabs of grey limestone (w: 0.98 x h: 0.54, and w: 0.98 x h: 0.54)  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
0.035-0.05; uncial Q.  
Date:
Fifth century A.D. (context)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in situ beside 835 and 840.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Rivista di Archeologia cristiana della Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia sacra VIII:47 ff., no.6, fig. 12. 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) 
tau-rho Hic requieshit Alexandrus
Bag̣ai filius qui b(ix)it annis
hoctoginta sex sepultus est
ind(ictione) tertia mensi Septembri
5h(i)c est qui erat bir gnarus
et sollers in cognatione sua (sic)
tau-rho HICREQVIESHITALEXANDRVS
BA·AIFILIVSQVIBITANNIS
HOCTOGINTASEXSEPVLTVSEST
INDTERTIAMENSISEPTEMBRI
5HCESTQVIERATBIRGNARVS
ETSOLLERSINCOGNATIONESVA(sic)
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="tau-rho" > </g>
Hic
requieshit
Alexandrus
<lb n="2" />
Ba
<unclear reason="" >
g
</unclear>
ai
filius
qui
<expan>
<abbr>
b
</abbr>
<ex>
ix
</ex>
<abbr>
it
</abbr>
</expan>
annis
<lb n="3" />
hoctoginta
sex
sepultus
est
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
ind
</abbr>
<ex>
ictione
</ex>
</expan>
tertia
mensi
Septembri
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
h
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
</expan>
est
qui
erat
bir
gnarus
<lb n="6" />
et
sollers
in
cognatione
sua
<note>
sic
</note>
</ab>

Translation:

Here lies Alexander son of Bagaus, who lived for eighty-six years; he was buried in the third indiction, in the month of September. This is a man who was knowledgeable and expert in his family affairs.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.29)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.29)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.XXI.12)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.XXI.12)

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