Description: Two re-used paving-slabs of grey limestone (w:
1.03 x h:
1.12 and w:
1.01 x h:
1.21).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.11-0.15. The text ends with a cross in a circle flanked by two palm branches, very similar to 837.
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 839.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Monogram cross) To his good memory. Sambas, son of Stephanus, the guardian of this place, lived in peace for eight years, two months and twenty days. He died on the day of Moon (Monday) in the month of March in the eighth indiction.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1931, 44-5, no. 3, fig.10; IRT, 1952, 843, whence IRT, 2009, 843, whence EDH 059694; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 1542)
Fig. 2. Tantillo (2004)