Description:
Chest-shaped tomb, consisting of three blocks of stuccoed sandstone (together w: 1.45 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.30). 
Text:
Lightly incised and painted inscription, now largely illegible. Below the inscription follows a latin cross and two inverted palm-branches, as also 838
Letters:
0.06-0.08.  
Date:
Fifth century - sixth century A.D. (context)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Cemetery of Church III: near the head of the Colonnaded Street 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.  
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) 
[---]
2 [·· ? ··]ḍo
[---]
4 [uixi]t in
5pace
annis
de[c]e-
m p(lus) m(inus)
[---]
2[·· ? ··]·O
[---]
4[·····]TIN
5PACE
ANNIS
DE[··]E
MPM
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
d
</unclear>
o
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
uixi
</supplied>
t
in
<lb n="5" />
pace
<lb n="6" />
annis
<lb n="7" />
de
<supplied reason="lost" >
c
</supplied>
e
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
m
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
lus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
inus
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] (l.3) he/she lived in peace for approximately ten years.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 739)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 739)

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