Christianfunerary inscription of StidinJ. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins
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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British
School at Rome, 1952.
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Description of Monument
Re-used slab
(0.371.47) of grey marble.
Description of Text
Inscribed on one face.
Description of Letters
0.035-0.045.
Date
Fifth-seventh century A.D.
(context, form)
Locations
Sabratha:
Church IIIIn situ in the S walk of the atrium.
Findspot
Findspot
Bibliography
Not previously published.
Text constituted from
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Text
ΑΩHikrequiescitbonaememoriaeStidinclericusbixitinpaceannosVIIIIetrequiebitinpace
Apparatus
The reading is clear cf. Bull. Arch. 1919 CCXVI.
Translation
cross.Alpha and Omega on either side of a monogram cross . Here lies at rest Stidin, of good memory, a priest. He lived in peace for 9 years sic and went to rest in peace cross