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213. Christian funerary inscription of Marcella

Description:: Tomb-slab (w: 0.56 x h: 2.04), consisting of a split segment of a marble column.
Text:: Inscribed on one face.
Letters:: l. 1, 0.12; ll. 2-6, 0.06.
Date:: Fifth-sixth century A.D. (context)
Findspot:: Sabratha: Cemetery east of Church IIn situ.
Original Location:: Findspot
Last recorded location:: Findspot
Bibliography:: R. Bartoccini, 'Le Basiliche cristiane del Foro di Sabratha', 11. 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)

Α crux Ω
crux Marcella crux
bon(a)e memori(a)e
in (Christ)o requieuit
5 d(ie) k(alendarum) Ianuariarum
crux ind(ictione) θ crux

Α crux Ω
crux MARCELLA crux
BONEMEMORIE
INΧΡOREQVIEVIT
5DKIANVARIARVM
crux INDΘ crux

<ab>

Marcella

<expan>

<abbr>

bon

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

memori

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

<am>

ΧΡ

</am>

</abbr>

<ex>

Christ

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

</expan>

requieuit

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

alendarum

</ex>

</expan>

Ianuariarum

<expan>

<abbr>

ind

</abbr>

<ex>

ictione

</ex>

</expan>

</ab>

Translation:

(Alpha and Omega on either side of a cross) (cross) Marcella (cross) Of good memory, she went to rest in Christ on January the first, in the ninth indiction. (cross)