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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0210. Christian funerary inscription of Irene

Description: Fragment of a paving-slab (w: 0.48 x h: 0.20) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: 0.025-0.04. Lines 3 and 4 break partly into minuscule.

Date: Fifth-sixth century CE (context)

Findspot: Sabratha: Cemetery East of Church I. In situ beside 196.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

((crux)) Bon(a)e memori(a)e Irene
bixit in pace an<n>os
UIIII p(lu)s m(inu)s s(ub) d(ie) XIII m(ensis) Maii
ind(ictione) XI

Diplomatic

BONEMEMORIEIRENE
BIXITINPACEANOS
UIIIIPSMSSDXIIIMMAII
INDXI

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(cross) To her good memory. Irene lived in peace for approximately nine years (scil. and was laid to rest) on the 13th May in indiction 11.

Bibliography: Bartoccini, Basiliche, 13; IRT, 1952, 210, whence IRT, 2009, 210, whence EDH 059186; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VIII.22)