841. Christian funerary inscription
- Description:
- Chest-shaped tomb, consisting of two sandstone blocks (together, w: 0.50 x h: 1.75 x d: 0.40) stuccoed and projecting one third above ground.
- Text:
- Inscribed in red paint, now very faded.
- Letters:
- av. 0.14
- Date:
- Fifth century - seventh century A.D. (style)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, loose near Church II.
- 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 (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</abbr>
B
</unclear>
<ex>
</expan>
onae
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
emoriae
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Paup
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
e
</unclear>
rae
<lb
n="4"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
b
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
x
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
it
</supplied>
<lb
n="5"
/>
ann
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
os
</supplied>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
plus
minus
</supplied>
<lb
n="7"
/>
<num
>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
XX
</num>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
To the good memory of Paupera. She lived [approximately] twenty (possibly more) years [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXXI.36)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XIV.20)
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