208. Christian funerary inscription of Iohannes
- Description:
- Re-used paving-slab (w: 0.50 x h: 0.50) of grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- 0.035-0.045.
- Date:
- Fifth-sixth century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Church I, loose in the adjoining baptistry.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- R. Bartoccini, 'Le Basiliche cristiane del Foro di Sabratha', 18. 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)
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<g
type="crux"
>
</g>
<expan>
<abbr>
B
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
onae
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
emoriae
</ex>
Iohannes
<lb
n="2"
/>
in
<orig
>
XPO
</orig>
requieuit
<lb
n="3"
/>
uixit
<expan>
<abbr>
annu
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
m
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
unu
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
m
</ex>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
enses
</ex>
<num
value="8"
>
VIIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ies
</ex>
<num
value="20"
>
XX
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ub die
</ex>
<num
value="13"
>
XIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ensis
</ex>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Apr
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilis
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
ind
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ictione
</ex>
<num
value="8"
>
VIII
</num>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<g
type="crux"
>
</g>
</ab>
Translation:
(cross) Of good memory, Joanes went to rest in Christ. He lived one year, nine months and twenty days (and was laid to rest) on the 13th April in indiction 8. (cross.)
Commentary:
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