Description:
block of marble (inscribed face
w:
0.56 x h:
0.34), a re-used stair-tread of wedge-shaped section.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: 0.05-0.08.
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context)
Findspot:
Sabratha:
Regio III,
Cemetery east of Church I. Found loose.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Loose in the precinct of the Antonine Temple (1951).
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
( cross) To the good memory of George; he lived in peace for approximately 20 years (scil. and was laid to rest) on the 22nd April in indiction 11.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, Basiliche, no. 16; IRT, 1952, 204, whence IRT, 2009, 204, whence EDH 059180; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.VIII.24)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VII.19)