Description: Two slabs, one of white marble (w:
0.43 x h:
0.71) and one of grey limestone (w:
0.43 x h:
0.76).
Text: Inscribed . The text ends with a monogram cross in a circle flanked by two palm-branches, as also 837.
Letters: 0.07-0.10; capitals, with uncial D in the last line. The text ends with a monogram cross in a circle flanked by two palm-branches,
as also 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 837.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
1-2: Possibly Ays Theodori; see also in 837 ll 3-4
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Monogram cross) To her good memory. Sifila, daughter of Aystheodorus, lived in peace for eight years. She died in the month of March in the eighth indiction.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1931, 48, no. 7, fig. 13; IRT, 1952, 845, whence IRT, 2009, 845, whence EDH 059696; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.8)