210. Christian funerary inscription of Irene

Description:
Fragment of a paving-slab (w: 0.48 x h: 0.20) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
0.025-0.04. Lines 3 and 4 break partly into minuscule. 
Date:
Fifth-sixth century A.D. (context) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Cemetery East of Church I. In situ beside 196. 
Original Location:
Findspot 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
R. Bartoccini, 'Le Basiliche cristiane del Foro di Sabratha', 13. 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 Bon(a)e memori(a)e Irene
bixit in pace an<n>os
VIIII p(lu)s m(inu)s s(ub) d(ie) XIII m(ensis) Maii
ind(ictione) XI
crux BONEMEMORIEIRENE
BIXITINPACEAN<N>OS
VIIIIPSMSSDXIIIMMAII
INDXI
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="crux" > </g>
<expan>
<abbr>
Bon
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
memori
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
Irene
<lb n="2" />
bixit
in
pace
an
<supplied reason="omitted" >
n
</supplied>
os
<lb n="3" />
<num value="9" >
VI
III
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
lu
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
inu
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ub
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ie
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="13" >
XIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
ensis
</ex>
</expan>
Maii
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
ind
</abbr>
<ex>
ictione
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="11" >
XI
</num>
</ab>

Translation:

(cross) To her good memory. Irene lived in peace for approximately nine years (and was laid to rest) on the 13th May in indiction 11.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VIII.22)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VIII.22)

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