Description: Wedge-shaped tomb-slab
(w:
0.32 and 0.25 x h:
0.75) of local sandstone.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: line 1 (capitals, uncial E), 0.035; line 2-6 (minuscule), 0.015-0.35.
Date: Fifth-seventh century CE (context, form)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio III:
Cemetery SE of Church III: Tomb T.8: in situ near 206.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
1: Hteodorus sic
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(cross) Of good memory, Theodorus lived in peace for approximately 20 years and went to rest with ? the blessed Father, in the month of July [---] fifth indiction. (Omega and alpha on either side of a monogram cross.)
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 221, whence IRT, 2009, 221, whence EDH 059197; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.S.112)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.VII.20)