Description: Two re-used paving-slabs
(w:
0.445 x h:
0.65 and
w:
0.47 x h:
0.42) of grey limestone,
from a tomb in the cemetery to the E of Church I. They are now loose, but
the peculiar form of alpha found in both, but otherwise unique in the
series from this cemetery, renders the association almost certain.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.04-0.065.
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context)
Findspot:
Sabratha:
Regio III,
Cemetery east of Church I. From a tomb.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
a. (cross) In the third indiction (cross). To the good memory of Liberata. She lived approximately 40 years, few and bad, and went to rest in Christ in the month of July, eight (?)
b. May you hear on that day the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ saying "all your sins are forgiven". (cross)
Bibliography: Bartoccini, Basiliche, 19; IRT, 1952, 212, whence IRT, 2009, 212, whence EDH 059188; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. a: Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.VIII.12)
Fig. 2. b, with a behind: Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.VIII.11)