Description:
Tomb-slab of grey limestone (w:
0.92 x h:
1.80).
Text: The inscription is cut in the arms of a lightly-recessed processional
cross (w:
0.83 x h:
1.03, plus handle 0.22) from which hangs the customary A and Omega.
There appears to have been an erased line of inscription, possibly contemporary, above the cross.
Letters: 0.04-0.095. a) horizontaline b) verticaline
Date: Fifth to sixth century CE (context)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Cemetery of Church III, at the head of
the Colonnaded Street.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
2: (a) Life. (b) Light. (cross) Primos
Alpha. Omega
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 842, whence PHI 189666, IRT, 2009, 842, whence EDH 059693; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1383 Leica)
Fig. 2. Tantillo (2006)