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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0198. Christian funerary inscription

Description: Tomb-slab (w: 0.84 x h: 1.05) of hard, dull green sandstone.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.07-0.13.

Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio III. In situ in the cemetery to the east of Church I.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

((crux)) Bon(a)e memo-
ri(a)e Corcon-
di(a)e bixit pl(us)
mi(nus) an(nos) XII

Diplomatic

BONEMEMO
RIECORCON
DIEBIXITPL
MIANXII

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(cross) To the good memory of Concordia. She lived approximately 12 years.

Bibliography: Bartoccini, Basiliche, no. 7; IRT, 1952, 198, whence IRT, 2009, 198, whence EDH 059174; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VIII.28)