839. Christian funerary inscription

Description:
Two re-used paving-slabs of grey limestone (w: 0.77 x h: 0.92 and w: 0.77 x h: 0.56).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
0.12-0.14. 
Date:
Fifth century A.D. (context)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in situ in the small cemetery against the North wall of the apse of Church II.  
Original Location:
Findspot 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Rivista di Archeologia cristiana della Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia sacra VIII:44, no.2, fig. 10. 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) 
crux B(onae) m(emoriae) Iuliana
filia Stefani
lok(i) serb(atoris) uix(it)
in p(ace) ann(um) unu(m)
5 m(enses) tres def(uncta)
di{a}e dominicia(e)
men(se) Mar-
tio ind(ictione) VIII
crux BMIVLIANA
FILIASTEFANI
LOKSERBVIX
INPANNVNV
5MTRESDEF
DI{A}EDOMINICIA
MENMAR
TIOINDVIII
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="crux" > </g>
<expan>
<abbr>
B
</abbr>
<ex>
onae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
emoriae
</ex>
</expan>
Iuliana
<lb n="2" />
filia
Stefani
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
lok
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
serb
</abbr>
<ex>
atoris
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
uix
</abbr>
<ex>
it
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
in
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ace
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
ann
</abbr>
<ex>
um
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
unu
</abbr>
<ex>
m
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
enses
</ex>
</expan>
tres
<expan>
<abbr>
def
</abbr>
<ex>
uncta
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="6" />
di
<sic >
a
</sic>
e
<expan>
<abbr>
dominicia
</abbr>
<ex>
e
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="7" />
<expan>
<abbr>
men
</abbr>
<ex>
se
</ex>
</expan>
Mar
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
tio
<expan>
<abbr>
ind
</abbr>
<ex>
ictione
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="8" >
VIII
</num>
</ab>

Translation:

(Cross.) To her good memory. Juliana, daughter of Stephanus, the guardian of this place, lived in peace for one year and three months and died on the day of the Lord (Sunday) in the month of March, in the eighth indiction.

Commentary:

l.3, serbator: see also 834, 835, 840, 843.

For the date see 835 and comment there.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.6)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.6)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 1542)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 1542)

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