Description: Re-used paving-slab
(w:
0.50 x h:
0.50) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: 0.035-0.045.
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio III,
Church I, loose in the adjoining baptistry.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(cross) Of good memory, Joanes went to rest in Christ. He lived one year, nine months and twenty days (scil. and was laid to rest) on the 13th April in indiction 8. (cross.)
Bibliography: Bartoccini, Basiliche, 18; IRT, 1952, 208, whence IRT, 2009, 208, whence EDH 059184; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 167)