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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0192. Christian dedication

Description: Small white marble panel (w: 0.16 x h: 0.27 x d: 0.02) containing Α Ω in a circular frame, set within an upright rectangular panel, and inscribed above and below in low relief.
Text: Inscribed above and below in low relief.
Letters: 0.035; uncial D.

Date: Fourth-seventh centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio I, from the Justinian church
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Sabratha Museum.

Interpretive

S(an)c(tu)s
d(eu)s

Diplomatic

SCS
DS

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Holy God.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 192, whence IRT, 2009, 192, whence EDH 059168; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 165)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.S.284)