837. Christian funerary inscription

Description:
Slab of grey limestone (w: 0.45 x h: 0.82).  
Text:
Inscribed. The text ends with a monogram cross in a circle flanked by two palm-branches, as also 845.  
Letters:
0.06-0.09. 
Date:
Fifth century A.D. (context)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in situ beside 845. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Rivista di Archeologia cristiana della Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia sacra VIII:49, no. 8, fig. 14. 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) 
tau-rho B(onae) m(emoriae) Euf-
emiae so-
ror(is) Austh-
eodori uix(it)
5 ann(os) V
tau-rho BMEVF
EMIAESO
RORAVSTH
EODORIVIX
5ANNV
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="tau-rho" > </g>
<expan>
<abbr>
B
</abbr>
<ex>
onae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
emoriae
</ex>
</expan>
Euf
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
emiae
<expan>
<abbr>
so
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
ror
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
Austh
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
eodori
<expan>
<abbr>
uix
</abbr>
<ex>
it
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
ann
</abbr>
<ex>
os
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="5" >
V
</num>
</ab>

3-4, Possibly Aus Theodori; see also in 845 ll 1-2

Translation:

(Monogram cross.) To the good memory of Euphemia, sister of ?Austheodorus. She lived five years.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.7)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.7)

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