WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0197. Christian funerary inscription

Description: Re-used paving-slab (w: 0.48 x h: 0.67) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: 0.04-0.06.

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

Interpretive

((Chi-Rho)) B(onae) m(emoriae) Bonus bi-
xit in pake
p(lus) m(inus) an(n)os
LXXX et req-
5uiebit in p-
ace ((Chi-Rho))

Diplomatic

BMBONUSBI
XITINPAKE
PMANOS
LXXXETREQ
5UIEBITINP
ACE

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(Monogram cross) Of good memory, Bonus lived in peace for approximately 80 years and went to rest in peace (Monogram cross).

Bibliography: Bartoccini, Basiliche, no. 2; IRT, 1952, 197, whence IRT, 2009, 197, whence EDH 059173; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.VI.17)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VIII.31)