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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0213. Christian funerary inscription of Marcella

Description: Tomb-slab (w: 0.56 x h: 2.04), consisting of a split segment of a marble column.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: line 1, 0.12; line 2-6, 0.06.

Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio III, Cemetery east of Church IIn situ.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Ἄ(λφα) ((crux)) Ὠ(μέγα)
((crux)) Marcella ((crux))
bon(a)e memori(a)e
in ((Christo)) requieuit
5 d(ie) k(alendarum) Ianuariarum
((crux)) ind(ictione) θ´ ((crux))

Diplomatic

Α † Ω
† MARCELLA †
BONEMEMORIE
IN ΧΡO REQUIEUIT
5DKIANUARIARUM
† INDΘ †

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(Alpha and Omega on either side of a cross) (cross) Marcella (cross) Of good memory, she went to rest in Christ on January the first, in the ninth indiction. (cross)

Bibliography: Bartoccini, Basiliche, 11; IRT, 1952, 213, whence IRT, 2009, 213, whence EDH 059189; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 1586)


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