Description: Re-used paving-slab
(w:
1.20 x h:
1.20) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: 0.045-0.065.
Date: Fourth-seventh centuries CE (content)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio III.
In situ in the cemetery to the east of Church I.
In situ beside 210.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
1: The first letter lacks the vertical stroke.
4: XPO for Christo.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(cross) Biocena (cross) of good memory. She lived approximately 35 years and went to rest in Christ on the 17th April, in the seventh indiction (cross).
Bibliography: Bartoccini, Basiliche, no. 12.; IRT, 1952, 196, whence IRT, 2009, 196, whence EDH 059172; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VIII.22)