836. Christian funerary inscription
- Description:
- Chest-shaped tomb, consisting of three blocks of stuccoed sandstone with smaller stones at head and foot (together, w: 1.25 x h: 0.44 x d: 0.35).
- Text:
- Very lightly incised and painted inscription, of which the upper part only is now legible.
- Letters:
- 0.04-0.08. At the head is a compass-traced cross within a circle.
- Date:
- Fifth century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Cemetery of Church III: near the head of the Colonnaded Street, near 846
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- 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>
Bon
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
e
</abbr>
m
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
emori
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
e
</abbr>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Dom
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
i
</ex>
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
ca
<expan>
<abbr>
bix
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
t
</abbr>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
an
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
os
</abbr>
plu
<lb
n="6"
type="worddiv"
/>
s
m
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
in
</supplied>
u
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
s
</supplied>
<lb
n="7"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="8"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
a
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
8, Or P.
Translation:
To her good memory. Dominica lived approximately [·· ? ··] years [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
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