846. Christian funerary inscription
- Description:
- Chest-shaped tomb, consisting of three blocks of stuccoed sandstone (together w: 1.45 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.30).
- Text:
- Lightly incised and painted inscription, now largely illegible. Below the inscription follows a latin cross and two inverted palm-branches, as also 838.
- Letters:
- 0.06-0.08.
- Date:
- Fifth century - sixth century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Cemetery of Church III: near the head of the Colonnaded Street
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
d
</unclear>
o
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
uixi
</supplied>
t
in
<lb
n="5"
/>
pace
<lb
n="6"
/>
annis
<lb
n="7"
/>
de
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
c
</supplied>
e
<lb
n="8"
type="worddiv"
/>
m
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
lus
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
inus
</ex>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] (l.3) he/she lived in peace for approximately ten years.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 739)
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