Description:
Tomb formed of a block of sandstone
tapering slightly from head to foot (w:
0.47 x h:
1.13),
originally stuccoed and inscribed on the stuccoed surface, which is now almost entirely lost.
Text: Inscribed on the stuccoed surface: the inscription survives only where the letters were cut through
the stucco and into the stone below.
Letters: Rough capitals: 0.45-0.106.
Date: Fifth-seventh centuries CE (content)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Colonnaded Street,
Cemetery of Church III;
in situ in the cemetery adjoining the church and the South Wall of the Forum Severianum.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Cross) Lord, give help [---] (Cross)
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1955, S.12, whence IRT, 2009, 984, whence EDH 059822
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 53 X 05)