WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0846. Christian funerary inscription

Description: Chest-shaped Tomb, consisting of three blocks of stuccoed sandstone (together w: 1.45 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.30).
Text: Lightly incised and painted inscription, now largely illegible. Below the inscription follows a latin cross and two inverted palm-branches, as also 838.
Letters: 0.06-0.08.

Date: Fifth century - sixth century CE (context)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Cemetery of Church III: near the head of the Colonnaded Street
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

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[---]ḍo
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[uixi]t in
pace
annis
5de[c]e-
m p(lus) m(inus)

Diplomatic

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[---].O
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[....]TIN
PACE
ANNIS
5DE[.]E
MPM

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] he/she lived in peace for approximately ten years.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 846, whence IRT, 2009, 846, whence EDH 059697; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 739)