WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0837. Christian funerary inscription

Description: Slab of grey limestone (w: 0.45 x h: 0.82).
Text: Inscribed . The text ends with a monogram cross in a circle flanked by two palm-branches, as also 845.
Letters: 0.06-0.09.

Date: Fifth century CE (context)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in situ in the small cemetery against the North wall of the apse of Church II, beside 845.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

((Chi-Rho)) B(onae) m(emoriae) Euf-
emiae so-
ror(is) Austh-
eodori uix(it)
5 ann(os) V

Diplomatic

BMEUF
EMIAESO
RORAUSTH
EODORIUIX
5ANNV

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(Monogram cross.) To the good memory of Euphemia, sister of ?Austheodorus. She lived five years.

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1931, 49, no. 8, fig. 14; IRT, 1952, 837, whence IRT, 2009, 837, whence EDH 059688; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.7)

   Fig. 2. Tantillo (2004)