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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0839. Christian funerary inscription

Description: Two re-used paving-slabs of grey limestone (w: 0.77 x h: 0.92 and w: 0.77 x h: 0.56).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.12-0.14.

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, near 835, 843.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

((crux)) B(onae) m(emoriae) Iuliana
filia Stefani
lok(i) serb(atoris) uix(it)
in p(ace) ann(um) unu(m)
5 m(enses) tres def(uncta)
di{a}e dominica(e)
men(se) Mar-
tio ind(ictione) VIII

Diplomatic

BMIULIANA
FILIASTEFANI
LOKSERBUIX
INPANNUNU
5MTRESDEF
DIAEDOMINICA
MENMAR
TIOINDVIII

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(Cross.) To her good memory. Juliana, daughter of Stephanus, the guardian of this place, lived in peace for one year and three months and died on the day of the Lord (Sunday) in the month of March, in the eighth indiction.

Commentary

Line 3, serbator: see also 834, 835, 840, 843.

For the date see 835 and comment there.

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1931, 44, no.2, fig. 10; IRT, 1952, 839, whence IRT, 2009, 839, whence EDH 059690; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.6)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 1542)

   Fig. 3. Tantillo (2004)