833. Christian funerary inscription

Description:: Two slabs of grey limestone (w: 0.98 x h: 0.54, and w: 0.98 x h: 0.54)
Text:: Inscribed on one face.
Letters:: 0.035-0.05; uncial Q.
Date:: Fifth century A.D. (context)
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in situ beside 835 and 840.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
Bibliography:: Bartoccini, Rivista di Archeologia cristiana della Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia sacra VIII:47 ff., no.6, fig. 12. 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)

tau-rho Hic requieshit Alexandrus
Bag̣ai filius qui b(ix)it annis
hoctoginta sex sepultus est
ind(ictione) tertia mensi Septembri
5h(i)c est qui erat bir gnarus
et sollers in cognatione sua (sic)

tau-rho HICREQVIESHITALEXANDRVS
BA·AIFILIVSQVIBITANNIS
HOCTOGINTASEXSEPVLTVSEST
INDTERTIAMENSISEPTEMBRI
5HCESTQVIERATBIRGNARVS
ETSOLLERSINCOGNATIONESVA(sic)

<ab>

Hic

requieshit

Alexandrus

</unclear>

filius

qui

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

</expan>

annis

hoctoginta

sex

sepultus

est

<expan>

<abbr>

ind

</abbr>

<ex>

ictione

</ex>

</expan>

tertia

mensi

Septembri

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

</expan>

est

qui

erat

bir

gnarus

sollers

cognatione

sua

<note>

sic

</note>

</ab>

Translation:

Here lies Alexander son of Bagaus, who lived for eighty-six years; he was buried in the third indiction, in the month of September. This is a man who was knowledgeable and expert in his family affairs.