843. Christian funerary inscription
- Description:
- Two re-used paving-slabs of grey limestone (w: 1.03 x h: 1.12 and w: 1.01 x h: 1.21).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- 0.11-0.15. The text ends with a cross in a circle flanked by two palm branches, very similar to 837.
- Date:
- Fifth century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus in situ beside 839.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Bartoccini, Rivista di Archeologia cristiana della Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia sacra VIII:44-5, no. 3, 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)
<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>
Sam
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
bas
filius
Ste
<lb
n="3"
/>
fani
<expan>
<abbr>
lok
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
i
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
serba
</abbr>
<ex>
tori
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
s
</abbr>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
uix
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
it
</ex>
in
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ace
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
ann
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
os
</ex>
<num
value="8"
>
VIII
</num>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
enses
</ex>
duo
dies
duo
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
e
</ex>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
unctus
</ex>
<lb
n="6"
/>
di
<sic
>
a
</sic>
e
lunnae
m
<lb
n="7"
type="worddiv"
/>
ense
Martio
<lb
n="8"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
ind
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ictionis
</ex>
octabae
Translation:
(Monogram cross) To his good memory. Sambas, son of Stephanus, the guardian of this place, lived in peace for eight years, two months and twenty days. He died on the day of Moon (Monday) in the month of March in the eighth indiction.
Photographs:
You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (You may need the EpiDoc DTD v. 6 to validate this file.)