844. Christian funerary inscription
- Description:
- Re-used paving-slab (w: 1.00 x h: 0.50) of grey limestone.
- Text:
- Very crudely inscribed, with many ligatures.
- Letters:
- l. 1, 0.12; l. 2, 0.10; l. 3, 0.08.
- Date:
- Fifth century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in situ between the Severan exedra and the Baptistry.
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<g
type="crux"
>
</g>
<expan>
<abbr>
Bon
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
e
</abbr>
<expan>
<abbr>
mem
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
oriae
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Serg
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
i
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Mari
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ae
</ex>
biuerunt
<num
>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
extentmax="4"
/>
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
an
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
nos
</ex>
plus
<lb
n="3"
/>
minus
<expan>
<abbr>
sep
</abbr>
<ex>
t
</ex>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
a
</supplied>
<abbr>
<unclear
reason=""
>
</abbr>
g
</unclear>
<ex>
</expan>
inta
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
ense
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
<unclear
reason=""
>
</abbr>
s
</unclear>
<num
value="9"
>
IX
</num>
<g
type="crux"
>
</g>
Translation:
(Cross) To the good memory of Sergius (and) Maria. They lived for approximately seventy years and nine months (Cross)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
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