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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0226. Fragmentary Christian funerary inscription

Description: Fragmentary marble slab, incomplete in height (w: 0.48 x h: 0.62 x d: 0.12), part of a tomb-inscription.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: 0.07-0.08.

Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context)

Findspot: Sabratha: : Regio I, Cemetery between the Basilica and the Antonine Temple. (Bartoccini, MS notes)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Sabratha Museum.

Interpretive

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qui legis ora
pro me pecc-
atore

Diplomatic

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QUILEGISORA
PROMEPECC
ATORE

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] you who read pray for me, a sinner.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 226, whence IRT, 2009, 226, whence EDH 059202; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 854 Leica)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VII.31)