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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0830. Christian invocation

Description: Block of sandstone (w: 0.52 x h: 0.76 x d: 0.12), stuccoed on one face.
Text: Inscribed in roughly incised, red-painted lettering. A rough T-shaped symbol (a cross ?) is scratched above the text.
Letters: 0.07-0.12.

Date: Fourth-seventh centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, Theatre.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Μα-
κάρι-
οϲ κ(ύ)ρ(ιο)ϲ

Diplomatic

ΜΑ
ΚΑΡΙ
ΟϹΚΡϹ

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Blessed is the Lord.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 830, whence PHI 189662, IRT, 2009, 830, whence EDH 059681; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXI.23)