840. Christian funerary inscription
- Description:
- Square marble slab (w: 0.90 x h: 0.98), re-used.
- Text:
- Inscribed when the slab was already cracked. The text concludes with a spray ending in a cross.
- Letters:
- 0.045-0.065; capitals, with uncial D in the last line.
- Date:
- Fifth century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in situ beside 835.
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Bartoccini, Rivista di Archeologia cristiana della Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia sacra VIII:46, no.5 , fig 11. 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>
Hic
requiesciet
fili
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
us
Stefani
loci
<expan>
<abbr>
s
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
erbatori
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
s
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
in
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
ocens
</abbr>
<lb
n="4"
/>
nomine
<expan>
<abbr>
Long
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
n
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
us
</abbr>
bixit
dies
<lb
n="6"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
sebte
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
m
</ex>
men
<lb
n="7"
type="worddiv"
/>
se
Septem
<lb
n="8"
type="worddiv"
/>
ber
<expan>
<abbr>
ind
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ictione
</ex>
<num
value="11"
>
XI
</num>
<note>
sic
</note>
Translation:
(Monogram cross) Here lies the son of Stephanus, the guardian of this place, an innocent named Longinus. He lived for seven days in the month of September in the eleventh indiction.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.XXI.12)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 1542)
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