833. Christian funerary inscription
- 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)
<ab>
</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>
</expan>
it
</abbr>
annis
<lb
n="3"
/>
hoctoginta
sex
sepultus
est
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
ind
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ictione
</ex>
tertia
mensi
Septembri
<lb
n="5"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
h
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
c
</abbr>
est
qui
erat
bir
gnarus
<lb
n="6"
/>
et
sollers
in
cognatione
sua
<note>
sic
</note>
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:
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