Description: Chest-shaped tomb consisting of two blocks of sandstone
(together, w:
1.83 x h:
0.50 x d:
0.48).
Text: Inscribed on the right-hand stone.
Letters: Irregular Greek letters, formed by a series of punched holes: line 1, 0.016-0.075; line 2, 3, 0.01-0.08. Capitals and cursive
letters mixed.
Date: Sixth to seventh century CE (context)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Cemetery of Church III, at the head of the
Colonnaded Street.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Maria, Theodorus.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1955, S.10, whence SEG 15.883, PHI 189675, IRT, 2009, 982, whence EDH 059820
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 53 XV 31)