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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0214. Christian funerary inscription of Matrona

Description: Large slab of grey limestone (w: 0.60 x h: 1.05 x d: 0.19) re-used as a tomb-slab.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.04-0.10.

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

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio III: Cemetery SE of Church III, loose beside 206.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

((crux)) Bona me-
(m)oria Ma-
trona bix(it) an<n>os XXXUII
pl(us) m(inus) bix(it) in p(ace)
5 dica[t] tibi D(omi)n(u)s
remissa su-
nt tibi pec(c)ata

Diplomatic

BONAME
ORIAMA
TRONABIXANOSXXXUII
PLMBIXINP
5DICA[.]TIBIDNS
REMISSASU
NTTIBIPECATA

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(cross) Of good memory, Matrona lived approximately 37 years. She lived in peace. May the Lord say to you "your sins are forgiven".

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 214, whence IRT, 2009, 214, whence EDH 059190; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.III.11)