876. Christian funerary inscription
- Description:
- Block (w: 0.80 x h: 0.49 x d: 0.13) of brown limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a recessed tabella ansata (die, w: 0.50 x h: 0.46).
- Letters:
- Local fourth to fifth centuries A.D. capitals, between horizontal guide-lines: av. c. 0.045. For the unusual form of the G ( J) see also 255 and 261 (39).
- Date:
- Fourth to fifth centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Eastern Djebel: From the ruins of a ditched tower at Sidi bu Laaba, near Bir et-Tuta, 3 km. North East of Breviglieri village (map ref, M 036195)
- 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)
5, The second E of Seberi is a later insertion.
7, lsa: Or LGA. The beginning of l. 5 and the ends of ll. 4 and 6 are inscribed on the ansae; the end of l. 8 on the border. The position in relation to the rest of the text of the three letters here shown at the end of l.7 is not certain.
Translation:
Flavius Gaudentius, may you proceed in your good fortune; and in the name of Christ may the whole family of Severi live (omega and alpha on either side of a monogram cross); farewell. This tower was built at a cost of[·· ? ··] and 30 folles.
Commentary:
No comment.
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