834. Christian funerary inscription

Description:
Two slabs, one of cream marble and one of grey marble (together, w: 0.06 x h: 0.80).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
av. 0.07; uncial U and D, once each.  
Date:
Fifth century A.D. (context)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in situ, but considerably damaged, within Church II.  
Original Location:
Findspot 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Rivista di Archeologia cristiana della Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia sacra VIII:42 ff., no.1, fig.9. 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) 
crux B(onae) m(emoriae) Anna in-
nok(ens) filia Stefani
lok(i) ser(batori)s bixit
in p(ace) annu(m) unu(m)
5men(ses) VIIII di(es) VIIII {S}
def(uncta) est die{s} V
men(sis) Iuini ind(ictione)
XII crux (sic)
crux BMANNAIN
NOKFILIASTEFANI
LOKSERSBIXIT
INPANNVVNV
5MENVIIIIDIVIIII{S}
DEFESTDIE{S}V
MENIVINIIND
XII crux (sic)
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="crux" > </g>
<expan>
<abbr>
B
</abbr>
<ex>
onae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
emoriae
</ex>
</expan>
Anna
<expan>
<abbr>
in
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
nok
</abbr>
<ex>
ens
</ex>
</expan>
filia
Stefani
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
lok
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
ser
</abbr>
<ex>
batori
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
</expan>
bixit
<lb n="4" />
in
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ace
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
annu
</abbr>
<ex>
m
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
unu
</abbr>
<ex>
m
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
men
</abbr>
<ex>
ses
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="9" >
VIIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
di
</abbr>
<ex>
es
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="9" >
VI
III
</num>
<sic >
S
</sic>
<lb n="6" />
<expan>
<abbr>
def
</abbr>
<ex>
uncta
</ex>
</expan>
est
die
<sic >
s
</sic>
<num value="5" >
V
</num>
<lb n="7" />
<expan>
<abbr>
men
</abbr>
<ex>
sis
</ex>
</expan>
Iuini
<expan>
<abbr>
ind
</abbr>
<ex>
ictione
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="8" />
<num value="12" >
XII
</num>
<g type="crux" > </g>
<note>
sic
</note>
</ab>

2, VIIII.

Translation:

(Cross) To (her) good memory. Anna, innocent daughter of Stephanus, the guardian of this place. She lived in peace for one year, nine months and nine days, and died on the 5th day of the month of June, in the twelfth indiction. (Cross.)

Commentary:

l.3, servator: also in 835, 839, 840, 843.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.9)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.9)

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