834. Christian funerary inscription
- Description:
- Two slabs, one of cream marble and one of grey marble (together, w: 0.06 x h: 0.80).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- av. 0.07; uncial U and D, once each.
- Date:
- Fifth century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in situ, but considerably damaged, within Church II.
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Bartoccini, Rivista di Archeologia cristiana della Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia sacra VIII:42 ff., no.1, fig.9. 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="crux"
>
</g>
<expan>
<abbr>
B
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
onae
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
emoriae
</ex>
Anna
<expan>
<abbr>
in
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
nok
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ens
</ex>
filia
Stefani
<lb
n="3"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
lok
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
i
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
ser
</abbr>
<ex>
batori
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
s
</abbr>
bixit
<lb
n="4"
/>
in
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ace
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
annu
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
m
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
unu
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
m
</ex>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
men
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ses
</ex>
<num
value="9"
>
VIIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
di
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
es
</ex>
<num
value="9"
>
VI
III
</num>
<sic
>
S
</sic>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
def
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uncta
</ex>
est
die
<sic
>
s
</sic>
<num
value="5"
>
V
</num>
<lb
n="7"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
men
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
sis
</ex>
Iuini
<expan>
<abbr>
ind
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ictione
</ex>
<lb
n="8"
/>
<num
value="12"
>
XII
</num>
<g
type="crux"
>
</g>
<note>
sic
</note>
2, VIIII.
Translation:
(Cross) To (her) good memory. Anna, innocent daughter of Stephanus, the guardian of this place. She lived in peace for one year, nine months and nine days, and died on the 5th day of the month of June, in the twelfth indiction. (Cross.)
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