864. Christian funerary inscription

Description:
Block of pink limestone (w: 0.74 x h: 0 .33 x d: 0.12 cut away at the bottom left-hand corner),  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Irregular late capitals, with S reversed throughout: 0.05-0.07. 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Western Djebel: Seen by Bartoncini and Goodchild built into the outside wall of a small mosque in the village of El-Msufiin, South of Garian (map ref. Q 300780).  
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 (Goodchild) 
crux Bon(a)e memori(a)e Macri-
ne bixit an(n)is LX̣X̣V plus m-
inus receset I mens[is]
M(a)rt(ii) indic(itione) III
crux BONEMEMORIEMACRI
NEBIXITANISL··VPLVSM
INVSRECESETIMENS[···]
MRTINDICIII
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="crux" > </g>
<expan>
<abbr>
Bon
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
memori
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
Macri
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
ne
bixit
<expan>
<abbr>
an
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
is
</abbr>
</expan>
<num value="75" >
L
<unclear reason="" >
XX
</unclear>
V
</num>
plus
m
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
inus
receset
<num value="1" >
I
</num>
mens
<supplied reason="lost" >
is
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
rt
</abbr>
<ex>
ii
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
indic
</abbr>
<ex>
itione
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="3" >
III
</num>
</ab>

Translation:

(Cross) To her good memory. Macrine lived approximately seventy-five years; she went to rest on the first day of the month of March in the third indiction.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

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