206. Christian funerary inscription of Ioanes

Description:
Re-used paving-slab (w: 0.40 x h: 0.42) of brown limestone, of the type characteristic of late paving at Sabratha. 
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
0.05-0.08. 
Date:
Fifth-seventh century A.D. (context, form) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Cemetery SE of Church IIIIn situ near 221. 
Original Location:
Findspot 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
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) 
- crux Ioane
s bon(a)e me
mori(a)e
bix(i)t an<n>os
5 LXXXX
- crux IOANE
SBONEME
MORIE
BIXTAN<N>OS
5LXXXX
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="crux" > </g>
Ioane
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
s
<expan>
<abbr>
bon
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
me
<lb n="3" />
mori
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
bix
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
<abbr>
t
</abbr>
</expan>
an
<supplied reason="omitted" >
n
</supplied>
os
<lb n="5" />
<num value="90" >
LXXXX
</num>
</ab>

Translation:

(cross) Joanes, of good memory, lived 90 years.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VIII.14)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VIII.14)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.VII.19)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.VII.19)

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