837. Christian funerary inscription
- Description:
- Slab of grey limestone (w: 0.45 x h: 0.82).
- Text:
- Inscribed. The text ends with a monogram cross in a circle flanked by two palm-branches, as also 845.
- Letters:
- 0.06-0.09.
- Date:
- Fifth century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in situ beside 845.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Bartoccini, Rivista di Archeologia cristiana della Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia sacra VIII:49, no. 8, fig. 14. 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>
<expan>
<abbr>
B
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
onae
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
emoriae
</ex>
Euf
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
emiae
<expan>
<abbr>
so
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
ror
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
is
</ex>
Austh
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
eodori
<expan>
<abbr>
uix
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
it
</ex>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
ann
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
os
</ex>
<num
value="5"
>
V
</num>
3-4, Possibly Aus Theodori; see also in 845 ll 1-2
Translation:
(Monogram cross.) To the good memory of Euphemia, sister of ?Austheodorus. She lived five years.
Commentary:
No comment.
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