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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0227. Fragmentary Christian funerary inscription

Description: Re-used paving-slab (w: 0.48 x h: 0.34, incomplete) of brown limestone of the type characteristic of late paving at Sabratha; the second of two comprising a tomb-inscription.
Text: Inscribed on one face. Below the text is a crudely drawn plant.
Letters: 0.04-0.55; minuscule A.

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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[or]a pro me pec(c)atrice

Diplomatic

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[..]APROMEPECATRICE

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] pray for me, a sinful woman.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 227, whence IRT, 2009, 227, whence EDH 059203; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.VIII.6)