Description: Chest-shaped tomb consisting of three blocks of stuccoed sandstone
(together, w:
1.96 x h:
0.48).
Text: Lightly inscribed on the stuccoed upper surface, which is now much damaged.
Letters: Irregular Greek lettering, capitals mixed with cursive forms: 0.115-0.205.
Date: Fifth-seventh centuries CE (content)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Probably from the cemetery adjoining Church III at the head of the
Colonnaded Street.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Standing on the top of a wall between the cemetery and the street which divides Regio IV from Regio II (1955).
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Monogram cross) For the hopes of Isidorus.
Commentary
The text was read from a photograph, taken when the surface was in a much better condition.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1955, S.11, whence SEG 15.884, PHI 189676, IRT, 2009, 983, whence EDH 059821
Images
None available (2021).