194. Christian funerary inscription

Description:
Marble panel (w: 0.35 x h: 0.030 x d: 0.02). 
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Fourth century A.D.: 0.03-0.045. 
Date:
Fourth century A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Sabratha: From the Catacomb to the E of the Theatre 
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) 
chi-rho spiritus Athica chi-rho
bonae memoria(e) dulcis
nomen anima mellea
petimus orationibus tuis
5exaudiat n(os) uix(it) chi-rho an(nos) LXVII
chi-rho SPIRITVSATHICA chi-rho
BONAEMEMORIADVLCIS
NOMENANIMAMELLEA
PETIMVSORATIONIBVSTVIS
5EXAVDIATNVIX chi-rho ANLXVII
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="chi-rho" > </g>
spiritus
Athica
<g type="chi-rho" > </g>
<lb n="2" />
bonae
<expan>
<abbr>
memoria
</abbr>
<ex>
e
</ex>
</expan>
dulcis
<lb n="3" />
nomen
anima
mellea
<lb n="4" />
petimus
orationibus
tuis
<lb n="5" />
exaudiat
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
os
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
uix
</abbr>
<ex>
it
</ex>
</expan>
<g type="chi-rho" > </g>
<expan>
<abbr>
an
</abbr>
<ex>
nos
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="67" >
LXVII
</num>
</ab>

Translation:

(Chi-Rho) The Soul of Athica (Chi-Rho). Of good memory, dear name, a honey-sweet spirit. We ask that by your prayers Christ (Chi-Rho) may hear us. She lived 67 years.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 858 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 858 Leica)

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