259. Fragmentary Christian funerary inscription

Description:
Fragment of a tomb-slab of sandstone (w: 0.70 x h: 0.30, no edges surviving) with remains of stuccoed surface. 
Text:
Incised and red- painted lettering within a roughly incised rectangular border (die, approx. w: 0.60 x h: 0.22). A Chi-rho monogram fills the left margin, within the border. 
Letters:
Lettering: 0.07-0.08  
Date:
Unknown  
Findspot:
Oea: Findspot unrecorded 
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) 
[B(onae)] m(emoriae) V[·]oilịm [ - - - ]
in pace bix[it]
ann[os ·· ? ··]
[··]MV[·]OIL·M[ - - - ]
INPACEBIX[···]
ANN[····· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
B
</abbr>
<ex>
onae
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
emoriae
</ex>
</expan>
V
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
oil
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
m
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" extentmax="3" />
<lb n="2" />
in
pace
bix
<supplied reason="lost" >
it
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
ann
<supplied reason="lost" >
os
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[To the good] memory of V[·· ? ··]oilim[·· ? ··] ; lived in peace [·· ? ··] years [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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