Description:
Chest-shaped tomb, consisting of two sandstone blocks (together, w: 0.50 x h: 1.75 x d: 0.40) stuccoed and projecting one third above ground. 
Text:
Inscribed in red paint, now very faded. 
Letters:
av. 0.14  
Date:
Fifth century - seventh century A.D. (style)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, loose near Church II.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
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) 
Ḅ(onae) m(emoriae)
Paup-
ẹrae
ḅ[i]x[it]
5ann[os]
[plus minus]
[··]XX [·· ? ··]
·M
PAVP
·RAE
·[··]X[···]
5ANN[···]
[·····]
[··]XX[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear reason="damage" >
B
</unclear>
</abbr>
<ex>
onae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
emoriae
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Paup
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
e
</unclear>
rae
<lb n="4" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
b
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
x
<supplied reason="lost" >
it
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
ann
<supplied reason="lost" >
os
</supplied>
<lb n="6" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
plus
minus
</supplied>
<lb n="7" />
<num >
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
XX
</num>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

To the good memory of Paupera. She lived [approximately] twenty (possibly more) years [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXXI.36)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXXI.36)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XIV.20)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XIV.20)

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