WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0222. Fragment of Christian funerary inscription

Description: Tomb-slab (measurements not recorded) of local sandstone.
Text: Inscribed on a plaster surface, which was much damaged when found and appears since completely to have perished.
Letters: Lettering (mixed capitals and uncials): size not recorded.

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

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio III, Church III. Found nearby. The text is known from a photograph only.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[Bonae me-]
[moriae ---]
-di q[ui]
bixi[t]
5 in pac[e]
an[nos]
[..] ṃ[enses]
[---]
su(b) d(ie) XIII men[s](is)
10 [Oc]ṭ[ob]ṛ[is]

Diplomatic

[.......-]
[......---]
DIQ[..]
BIXI[.]
5INPAC[.]
AN[...]
[··].[.....]
[---]
SUDXIIIMEN[.]
10[..].[..].[..]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[Of good memory---]dus who lived in peace for [---] years, [? months, ?days and went to rest] on the 13th day of October.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 222, whence IRT, 2009, 222, whence EDH 059198; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 371)