222. Fragment of Christian funerary inscription

Description:
Tomb-slab (measurements not recorded) of local sandstone.  
Text:
Inscribed on a plaster surface, which was much damaged when found and appears since completely to have perished. 
Letters:
Lettering (mixed capitals and uncials): size not recorded. 
Date:
Fifth-seventh century A.D. (context, form) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Church III. Found nearby. The text is known from a photograph only. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
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:
Transcribed from the photograph (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
[Bonae me]-
[moriae ·· ? ··]
di q[ui]
bixi[t]
5 in pac[e]
an[nos]
[··] ṃ[enses]
[·· ? ··]
su(b) d(ie) XIII men[s](is)
10 [Oc]ṭ[ob]ṛ[is]
[·········]
[········· ? ··]
DIQ[···]
BIXI[··]
5INPAC[··]
AN[····]
[··]·[······]
[·· ? ··]
SVDXIIIMEN[··]
10[···]·[···]·[···]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Bonae
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
me
</supplied>
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
moriae
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
di
q
<supplied reason="lost" >
ui
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
bixi
<supplied reason="lost" >
t
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
in
pac
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
<lb n="6" />
an
<supplied reason="lost" >
nos
</supplied>
<lb n="7" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="" >
m
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
enses
</supplied>
<lb n="8" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="9" />
<expan>
<abbr>
su
</abbr>
<ex>
b
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ie
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="13" >
XIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
men
<supplied reason="lost" >
s
</supplied>
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="10" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Oc
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
t
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ob
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
r
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
is
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

[Of good memory·· ? ··]dus who lived in peace for [·· ? ··] years, [? months, ?days and went to rest] on the 13th day of October.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 371)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 371)

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