Description:
Tomb formed of a block of sandstone tapering slightly from head to foot (w: 0.47 x h: 1.13), originally stuccoed and inscribed on the stuccoed surface, which is now almost entirely lost.  
Text:
Inscribed on the stuccoed surface: the inscription survives only where the letters were cut through the stucco and into the stone below. 
Letters:
Rough capitals: 0.45-0.106.  
Date:
No indication 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Church III; in situ in the cemetery adjoining the church and the South Wall of the Forum Severianum. For this church see commentary on 982
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147, no. S.12. 
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) 
crux
Κ(ύρι)ε βο(ήθει)
[ - - - ]ΕΟ[ - - - ]
[·· c. 4··]
crux
crux
ΚΕΒΟ
[ - - - ]ΕΟ[ - - - ]
[·· c. 4··]
crux
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<g type="crux" > </g>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Κ
</abbr>
<ex>
ύρι
</ex>
<abbr>
ε
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
βο
</abbr>
<ex>
ήθει
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" extentmax="2" />
<orig >
εο
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" extentmax="2" />
<lb n="2a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<lb n="2b" />
<g type="crux" > </g>
</ab>

Translation:

(Cross) Lord, give help [·· ? ··] (Cross)

Commentary:

Κ(ύρι)ε βο(ήθει) see also 829, from Church III.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 53 X 05)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 53 X 05)

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