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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0199. Christian funerary inscription

Description: Tomb-slab (w: 0.65 x h: 0.48) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.04-0.08.

Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio III. In situ in the cemetery to the east of Church I.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

((Chi-Rho)) Bon(a)e memori(a)e
Crisomali bixit
in pace an(n)os LX plus
minus ((Chi-Rho))

Diplomatic

BONEMEMORIE
CRISOMALIBIXIT
INPACEANOSLXPLUS
MINUS

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(monogram cross) To the good memory of Crisomalus. He lived in peace for approximately 60 years. (monogram cross)

Bibliography: Bartoccini, Basiliche, no. 8; IRT, 1952, 199, whence IRT, 2009, 199, whence EDH 059175; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VIII.33)