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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0228. Fragmentary Christian funerary inscription

Description: Sandstone slab (w: 0.66 x h: 0.29 x d: 0.06).
Text: Inscribed on a stucco surface (surviving part w: 0.50 x h: 0.13).
Letters: 0.21.

Date: No indication

Findspot: Sabratha: Catacomb to the E of the Theatre.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Sabratha Museum.

Interpretive

[---] AṬSADEBEN [---]

Diplomatic

[---]A.SADEBEN[---]

1: . . . ]AISADEBEN [ . . .

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(Not usefully translateable.)

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 228, whence IRT, 2009, 228, whence EDH 059204; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 856 Leica)