WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0836. Christian funerary inscription

Description: Chest-shaped tomb, consisting of three blocks of stuccoed sandstone with smaller stones at head and foot (together, w: 1.25 x h: 0.44 x d: 0.35).
Text: Very lightly incised and painted inscription, of which the upper part only is now legible.
Letters: 0.04-0.08. At the head is a compass-traced cross within a circle.

Date: Fifth century CE (context)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Cemetery of Church III: near the head of the Colonnaded Street, near 846
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

Bon(a)e m-
emori(a)e
Dom(i)n(i)-
ca bix(i)t
5 an(n)os plu-
s m[in]u[s]
------
[---]

Diplomatic

BONEM
EMORIE
DOMN
CABIXT
5ANOSPLU
SM[..]U[.]
------
.[---]

8: Or P.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To her good memory. Dominica lived approximately [---] years [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 836, whence IRT, 2009, 836, whence EDH 059687; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 741)