212. Christian funerary inscriptions

Description:
Two re-used paving-slabs (w: 0.445 x h: 0.65 and w: 0.47 x h: 0.42) of grey limestone, from a tomb in the cemetery to the E of Church I. They are now loose, but the peculiar form of alpha found in both, but otherwise unique in the series from this cemetery, renders the association almost certain. 
Text:
Inscribed on the face. 
Letters:
0.04-0.065. 
Date:
Fifth-sixth century A.D. (context) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Cemetery east of Church I. From a tomb. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
R. Bartoccini, 'Le Basiliche cristiane del Foro di Sabratha', 19. 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) 
a
crux Ind(ictione) III crux
Bon(a)e memor-
i(a)e Liberatae
bixit annos
5 XL pl(us) m(inus) pa-
uci et mali et
requiebit in
(Christ)o men(se) Iu-
lio com(- - -) VIII
b
Audias in illa-
die bocem D(omi)ni
(Ies)u (Christ)i dicentis
remissa sunt
5tibi unibersa
delicta crux
a
crux INDIII crux
BONEMEMOR
IELIBERATAE
BIXITANNOS
5XLPLMPA
VCIETMALIET
REQVIEBITIN
ΧΡOMENIV
LIOCOM(- - -)VIII
b
AVDIASINILLA
DIEBOCEMDNI
ΙΗVΧΡIDICENTIS
REMISSASVNT
5TIBIVNIBERSA
DELICTA crux
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="crux" > </g>
<expan>
<abbr>
Ind
</abbr>
<ex>
ictione
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="3" >
III
</num>
<g type="crux" > </g>
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Bon
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
memor
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
i
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
Liberatae
<lb n="4" />
bixit
annos
<lb n="5" />
<num value="40" >
XL
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
pl
</abbr>
<ex>
us
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
inus
</ex>
</expan>
pa
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
uci
et
mali
et
<lb n="7" />
requiebit
in
<lb n="8" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
ΧΡ
</am>
</abbr>
<ex>
Christ
</ex>
<abbr>
o
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
men
</abbr>
<ex>
se
</ex>
</expan>
Iu
<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
lio
<abbr>
co
m
</abbr>
<num value="8" >
VI
II
</num>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Audias in illa
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
die bocem
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
omi
</ex>
<abbr>
ni
</abbr>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
ΙΗ
</am>
</abbr>
<ex>
Ies
</ex>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
ΧΡ
</am>
</abbr>
<ex>
Christ
</ex>
<abbr>
i
</abbr>
</expan>
dicentis
<lb n="4" />
remissa sunt
<lb n="5" />
tibi unibersa
<lb n="16" />
delicta
<g type="crux" > </g>
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

a. (cross) In the third indiction (cross). To the good memory of Liberata. She lived approximately 40 years, few and bad, and went to rest in Christ in the month of July, eight (?)

b. May you hear on that day the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ saying "all your sins are forgiven". (cross)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.VIII.11)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.VIII.11)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.VIII.12)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.VIII.12)

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