WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1131. Christian funerary inscription

Description: Limestone block w: 0.90 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.35 .
Text: Inscribed to the right (i) and left (ii) of a Chi-Rho.
Letters: Crude lettering: i, 0.08; ii, 0.05

Date: Fourth-seventh centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Eastern Jabal: in the ruins of a small gasr about 3 km east-sout-east of Marconi
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum

Interpretive

i
In oc
sig-
no
ii
Granii Bi-
bas cum
filis et nep-
otibus

Diplomatic

i
INOC
SIG
NO
ii
GRANIIBI
BASCUM
FILISETNEP
OTIBUS

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i): In this sign (scil. conquer). (ii): Bibas (scil. child?) of Granius with children and grandchildren.

Bibliography: Oates, 1954 4, p.115, whence mentioned AE 1955, page 60

Images

None available (2021).