195. Christian funerary inscriptions
- Description:
- Left-hand side of a mosaic panel containing an irregular tabella ansata (die, surviving w: 1.33 x h: 0.32 x d: 0.42). The main text is grouped about a central Ω⳩Α, and the spaces are filled with simple foliate ornament. The right ansa is missing.
- Text:
- Mosaic lettering
- Letters:
- Fourth century A.D. a) To the left of the monogram: 0.10-0.15. b) To the right: 0.10-0.15. c) In the left (the only surviving) ansa: 0.05.
- Date:
- Fourth century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Theatre: from the catacomb to the east of the theatre
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Sabratha Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Augu
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
ria
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
lu
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
s
</abbr>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
inus
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
qui
bi
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
xit
ann
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
os
<num
value="65"
>
LXV
</num>
<div
type="textpart"
n="c"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
type="worddiv"
/>
Siddi
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
npal
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
ni
c.1, Perhaps Siddinnipal
Translation:
a. Auguria
; b. who lived approximately 65 years
c. Sidinnipal (or Siddinipal)
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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