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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0206. Christian funerary inscription of Ioanes

Description: Re-used paving-slab (w: 0.40 x h: 0.42) of brown limestone, of the type characteristic of late paving at Sabratha.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: 0.05-0.08.

Date: Fifth-seventh century CE (context, form)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio III. Cemetery SE of Church III: Tomb 2, in situ near 221.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

((crux)) Ioane-
s bon(a)e me
mori(a)e
bix(i)t an<n>os
5 LXXXX

Diplomatic

IOANE
SBONEME
MORIE
BIXTANOS
5LXXXX

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(cross) Joanes, of good memory, lived 90 years.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 206, whence IRT, 2009, 206, whence EDH 059182; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VIII.14)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.VII.19)