876. Christian funerary inscription

Description:
Block (w: 0.80 x h: 0.49 x d: 0.13) of brown limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a recessed tabella ansata (die, w: 0.50 x h: 0.46). 
Letters:
Local fourth to fifth centuries A.D. capitals, between horizontal guide-lines: av. c. 0.045. For the unusual form of the G ( J) see also 255 and 261 (39). 
Date:
Fourth to fifth centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Eastern Djebel: From the ruins of a ditched tower at Sidi bu Laaba, near Bir et-Tuta, 3 km. North East of Breviglieri village (map ref, M 036195) 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis 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) 
Fl(auius) Gaudentius
bono tuo proce-
das et i(n) nomine
(C)hristi omnes genus
5Seberi bibant Ω tau-rho Α ua(le)
hec turis fabric-
ata est ANOTAP LSA
ETRAVLIHORD et fol(les) XXX
FLGAVDENTIVS
BONOTVOPROCE
DASETINOMINE
HRISTIOMNESGENVS
5SEBERIBIBANTΩ tau-rho ΑVA
HECTVRISFABRIC
ATAESTANOTAPLSA
ETRAVLIHORDETFOLXXX
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Fl
</abbr>
<ex>
auius
</ex>
</expan>
Gaudentius
<lb n="2" />
bono
tuo
proce
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
das
et
<expan>
<abbr>
i
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
</expan>
nomine
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<ex>
C
</ex>
hristi
</expan>
omnes
genus
<lb n="5" />
Seberi
bibant
Ω
<g type="tau-rho" > </g>
Α
<expan>
<abbr>
ua
</abbr>
<ex>
le
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="6" />
hec
turis
fabric
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
ata
est
<orig >
anotap
</orig>
<orig >
lsa
</orig>
<lb n="8" />
<orig >
etraulihord
</orig>
et
<expan>
<abbr>
fol
</abbr>
<ex>
les
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="30" >
XXX
</num>
</ab>

5, The second E of Seberi is a later insertion.

7, lsa: Or LGA. The beginning of l. 5 and the ends of ll. 4 and 6 are inscribed on the ansae; the end of l. 8 on the border. The position in relation to the rest of the text of the three letters here shown at the end of l.7 is not certain.

Translation:

Flavius Gaudentius, may you proceed in your good fortune; and in the name of Christ may the whole family of Severi live (omega and alpha on either side of a monogram cross); farewell. This tower was built at a cost of[·· ? ··] and 30 folles.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.XVIII.30)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.XVIII.30)

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