838. Christian funerary inscription
- Description:
- Chest-shaped tomb, consisting of two blocks of stuccoed sandstone (w: 0.32 x h: 1.15).
- Text:
- Incised (once painted) inscription. Below the inscription follows a cross and two inverted palm-branches, see also 846.
- Letters:
- 0.05-0.08
- Date:
- Fifth century - sixth 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"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
s
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
b
</unclear>
on
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
e
</abbr>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
m
</unclear>
emo
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
ri
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
e
</abbr>
<expan>
<abbr>
Iae
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
nni
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
e
</abbr>
<lb
n="6"
/>
qui
bi
<lb
n="7"
type="worddiv"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
x
</unclear>
it
an
<lb
n="8"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
nos
</supplied>
<lb
n="9"
/>
septe
<lb
n="10"
type="worddiv"
/>
m
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
lus
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
inus
</ex>
<lb
n="11"
/>
<g
type="crux"
>
</g>
4-5, Or Laenniae.
Translation:
[·· ? ··] To the good memory of Iaennias who lived approximately seven years.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 738)
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