861. Christian funerary inscription

Description:
Elaborate tomb-slab (w: 0.50 x h: 1.60 x d: 0.07, height incomplete) of soft brown limestone  
Text:
Carved and inscribed in low counter-relief. The inscription (die, w: 0.35 x h: 0.90, height incomplete) occupies the lower and taller of two rectangular panels set within a guilloche border. Above is a Latin cross, with stars in the upper corners; A and Ω and two leaves in the lower.  
Letters:
Capitals: 0.065. 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Western Djebel: Found in situ in the apse of the church 1 km. South of Ras el-Uadi and 3 km. North West of the mudariya of El-Asabaa (map ref. Q 143782).  
Original Location:
Findspot 
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle. 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, II: 84-88, 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) 
crux Deo propi-
tio hic pau-
sat bon(a)e
memori(a)e
5Turrenti
presbiteri
qui bixit
in pace an-
nos quạ(d)ṛa-
10ginta se[p]-
ṭ[em] plus [mi]-
ṇ[u]s rẹ[qui]-
[eui]t i[n] pa]-
[ce ·· ? ··]
crux DEOPROPI
TIOHICPAV
SATBONE
MEMORIE
5TVRRENTI
PRESBITERI
QVIBIXIT
INPACEAN
NOSQV··A
10GINTASE[··]
·[···]PLVS[···]
·[··]SR·[····]
[····]TI[··]···]
[····· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="crux" > </g>
Deo
propi
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
tio
hic
pau
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
sat
<expan>
<abbr>
bon
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
memori
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
Turrenti
<lb n="6" />
presbiteri
<lb n="7" />
qui
bixit
<lb n="8" />
in
pace
an
<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
nos
<expan>
<abbr>
qu
<unclear reason="" >
a
</unclear>
</abbr>
<ex>
d
</ex>
<abbr>
<unclear reason="" >
r
</unclear>
a
</abbr>
</expan>
<lb n="10" type="worddiv" />
ginta
se
<supplied reason="lost" >
p
</supplied>
<lb n="11" type="worddiv" />
<unclear reason="" >
t
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
em
</supplied>
plus
<supplied reason="lost" >
mi
</supplied>
<lb n="12" type="worddiv" />
<unclear reason="" >
n
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
u
</supplied>
s
r
<unclear reason="" >
e
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
qui
</supplied>
<lb n="13" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
eui
</supplied>
t
i
<supplied reason="lost" >
n
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
pa
</supplied>
<lb n="14" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ce
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

(Cross) With God favourable, here rests Turrentius, presbyter, of good memory, who lived in peace approximately forty-seven years and was laid to rest in peace [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 689 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 689 Leica)

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