Description: Re-used paving-slab
(w:
0.54 x h:
0.69) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: line 1-5, 0.055-0.065; line 6 (minuscule), 0.03-0.04.
Date: Fourth-seventh centuries CE (content)
Findspot:
Sabratha:
Regio III,
Cemetery east of Church I, loose.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
5: Written SY.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
( monogram cross) Of good memory, Joanes lived in peace for approximately 85 years (scil. and died) on the 27th January in the fifth indiction. ( monogram cross)
Bibliography: Bartoccini, Basiliche, 17 IRT, 1952, 207, whence IRT, 2009, 207, whence EDH 059183; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VIII.34)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VIII.34)