Description: Re-used paving-slab
(w:
0.40 x h:
0.64) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on surviving face.
Letters: Fifth-sixth century CE0.045-0.07; uncial Q.
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio I,
In situ in the South Forum Portico necropolis.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Alpha and Omega (for "the first and the last" )on either side of a monogram cross.
To the good memory of Angela; she lived in peace for approximately 13 years and went to rest on the first of April.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, Basiliche, no. 4.; IRT, 1952, 193, whence IRT, 2009, 193, whence EDH 059169; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VIII.35)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VIII.35)