225. Fragmentary Christian funerary inscription

Description:
Marble stair-tread (surviving w: 0.27 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.15) re-used as a tomb-slab. 
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
0.05-0.06; uncial D. 
Date:
Unknown  
Findspot:
Sabratha: Findspot unrecorded 
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) 
[·· ? ··]CI OS[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] [Sanc]t(u)s Domin[us ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] pl(u)s min(us) a[nnos ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]CIOS[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··][·····]TSDOMIN[····· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]PLSMINA[······· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
CI
</orig>
<orig >
OS
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Sanc
</supplied>
t
</abbr>
<ex>
u
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
</expan>
Domin
<supplied reason="lost" >
us
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
pl
</abbr>
<ex>
u
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
min
</abbr>
<ex>
us
</ex>
</expan>
a
<supplied reason="lost" >
nnos
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] the Holy Lord (nominative case) [·· ? ·· he/she lived] approximately [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 814 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 814 Leica)

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