Description: Re-used paving-slab
(w:
0.58 x h:
0.88) of
grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face. Part of the top line is now lost, and is here read from an earlier photograph.
Letters: 0.05-0.07; uncial D twice.
Date: fifth-seventh centuries CE (context)
Findspot:
Sabratha:
Byzantine city-wall to the W of the Forum. Found during trenching, near the site of the modern tunny-factory
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Sabratha Museum.
1: ((crux)) BOMMEMOE and small LE under the third M.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(cross) Of good memory. Esidorus lived in peace for approximately 70 years (scil. and was laid to rest) on the 11th October in the fourth indiction.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, Basiliche, no. 15; IRT, 1952, 201, whence IRT, 2009, 201, whence EDH 059177; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 811 Leica)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 569)