WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0844. Christian funerary inscription

Description: Re-used paving-slab (w: 1.00 x h: 0.50) of grey limestone.
Text: Very crudely inscribed, with many ligatures.
Letters: line 1, 0.12; line 2, 0.10; line 3, 0.08.

Date: Fifth century CE (context)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in situ between the Severan exedra and the Baptistry.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

((crux)) Bon(a)e mem(oriae) Serg(i)
Mari(ae) biuerunt [c. 1 - 4] an(nos) plus
minus sep(t)u[a]g̣(inta) m(ense)ṣ IX ((crux))

Diplomatic

BONEMEMSERG
MARIBIUERUNT[c. 1 - 4]ANPLUS
MINUSSEPU[.].M.IX

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(Cross) To the good memory of Sergius (scil. and) Maria. They lived for approximately seventy years and nine months (Cross)

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 844, whence IRT, 2009, 844, whence EDH 059695; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 760)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XV.34)