Description: Two re-used paving-slabs of grey limestone (w:
1.03 x h:
1.01 and w:
1.03 x h:
1.20).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.14-0.16; capitals, with uncial D in the last line.
Date: Fifth century CE (lettering, context)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, in situ in the small cemetery against the North wall of the apse of
Church II, near 839,
843.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Monogram cross.) To her good memory. Demetria, daughter of Stephanus, the guardian of this place. She lived in peace for three years, six months and fourteen days, and died on the day of Mars in the month of March, in the eighth indiction.
Commentary
The child died within two days of the two recorded in 839 and 843, evidently from some epidemic.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1931, 46, no. 4; IRT, 1952, 835, whence IRT, 2009, 835, whence EDH 059686; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.XXI.13)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 1542)
Fig. 3. Face: Kenrick, 2009