WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0215. Christian funerary inscription of Nadese

Description: Tomb-slab (measurements unrecorded) of local sandstone coated with plaster.
Text: Lightly incised on a surface of plaster
Letters: Measurements unrecorded; uncial D.

Date: fifth-seventh centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Sabratha: Findspot unrecorded. The text is known from a photograph only.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

((crux)) In n(omine) D(omi)ni
(Iesus) ((Christi)) meṃ-
oria Nadese
filia Misẹḳor
5 bixit ann(os) UII
dies LX [.] re-
q[uieuit...]IE
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Diplomatic

† INNDNI
ΧΡΙ ME.
ORIANADESE
FILIAMIS..OR
5BIXITANNUII
DIESLX[·]RE
Q[......···]IE
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English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(cross) In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, in memory of Nadese, daughter of Misekor. She lived 7 years 60 ((?+)) days and went to rest [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 215, whence IRT, 2009, 215, whence EDH 059191; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 1)


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