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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0838. Christian funerary inscription

Description: Chest-shaped tomb, consisting of two blocks of stuccoed sandstone (w: 0.32 x h: 1.15).
Text: Incised (once painted) inscription. Below the inscription follows a cross and two inverted palm-branches, see also 846.
Letters: 0.05-0.08

Date: Fifth century - sixth 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

[---]s
ḅon(a)e
ṃemo-
ri(a)e Iae-
5nni(a)e
qui bi-
x̣it an-
[nos]
septe-
10m p(lus) m(inus)
((crux))

Diplomatic

[---]S
.ONE
.EMO
RIEIAE
5NNIE
QUIBI
.ITAN
[...]
SEPTE
10MPM

4-5: Or Laenniae.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] To the good memory of Iaennias who lived approximately seven years.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 838, whence IRT, 2009, 838, whence EDH 059689; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 738)