Description:
Re-used paving-slab (w: 0.48 x h: 0.34, incomplete) of brown limestone of the type characteristic of late paving at Sabratha; the second of two comprising a tomb-inscription. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. Below the text is a crudely drawn plant. 
Letters:
0.04-0.55; minuscule A. 
Date:
Fifth-sixth century A.D. (context) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Cemetery between the Basilica and the Antonine Temple. (Bartoccini, MS notes) 
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:
Bartoccini MS notes; transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
[---]
2 [or]a pro me pec(c)atrice
[---]
2[···]APROMEPECATRICE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
or
</supplied>
a
pro
me
<expan>
<abbr>
pec
</abbr>
<ex>
c
</ex>
<abbr>
atrice
</abbr>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] pray for me, a sinful woman.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.VIII.6)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.VIII.6)

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