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256a. Christian funerary inscription for Helladios

Description:: The right-hand part of a marble panel. (surviving width w: 0.46 x h: 0.38 x d: 0.04, surface badly worn). Not seen.
Text:: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters:: Roughly incised lettering: 0.02-0.025.
Date:: Unknown
Findspot:: Oea: Tripoli. Seen and recorded in Tripoli in the early part of the nineteenth century. Rediscovered near the church of Santa Maria in Tripoli.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Tripoli Castle.
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)

[Εὐμοιριτο] Ἑλλάδιος ἔζησε ἔτι ν´
[πλέον ἔλατ(τ)ον μῆ]ν[ες γ´] ἡμέρας
[δεκαπέντε ὁ Χριστὸς μετὰ τ(ο)ῦ] πνεύ-
[ματός σ(ο)υ ἐτ]ελεύ[τισεν μι]νὶ Π̣αυνὶ
5[ἑβδό]μι κατὰ τοὺς Ἄφρ<ο>υς

[··········]ΕΛΛΑΔΙΟΣΕΖΗΣΕΕΤΙΝ´
[·········]Ν[·····]ΗΜΕΡΑΣ
[············]ΠΝΕΥ
[···········]ΕΛΕΥ[·········]ΝΙ·ΑΥΝΙ
5[·····]ΜΙΚΑΤΑΤΟΥΣΑΦΡ<Ο>ΥΣ

<ab>

Εὐμοιριτο

</supplied>

Ἑλλάδιος

ἔζησε

ἔτι

</num>

πλέον

<expan>

<abbr>

ἔλατ

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

ον

</abbr>

</expan>

</supplied>

μῆ

</supplied>

ες

</supplied>

</num>

</supplied>

ἡμέρας

δεκαπέντε

ὁ

Χριστὸς

μετὰ

</supplied>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

ῦ

</abbr>

</expan>

</supplied>

πνεύ

ματός

</supplied>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

</expan>

</supplied>

ἐτ

</supplied>

ελεύ

τισεν

</supplied>

μι

</supplied>

νὶ

</unclear>

αυνὶ

ἑβδό

</supplied>

μι

κατὰ

τοὺς

Ἄφρ

</supplied>

υς

</ab>

The supplied letters are no longer legible.

Translation:

[May he be well off]. Helladios lived approximately 50 years, three months and fifteen days. Christ be with your spirit. He died on the seventh of the month of Payn among the Africans.