836. Christian funerary inscription

Description:
Chest-shaped tomb, consisting of three blocks of stuccoed sandstone with smaller stones at head and foot (together, w: 1.25 x h: 0.44 x d: 0.35). 
Text:
Very lightly incised and painted inscription, of which the upper part only is now legible. 
Letters:
0.04-0.08. At the head is a compass-traced cross within a circle. 
Date:
Fifth century A.D. (context) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Cemetery of Church III: near the head of the Colonnaded Street, near 846 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis 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:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
Bon(a)e m-
emori(a)e
Dom(i)n(i)-
ca bix(i)t
5 an(n)os plu-
s m[in]u[s]
[---]
8Ạ[·· ? ··]
BONEM
EMORIE
DOMN
CABIXT
5ANOSPLV
SM[···]V[··]
[---]
8·[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Bon
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
m
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
<expan>
<abbr>
emori
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Dom
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
ca
<expan>
<abbr>
bix
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
<abbr>
t
</abbr>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
an
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
os
</abbr>
</expan>
plu
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
s
m
<supplied reason="lost" >
in
</supplied>
u
<supplied reason="lost" >
s
</supplied>
<lb n="7" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="8" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
a
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

8, Or P.

Translation:

To her good memory. Dominica lived approximately [·· ? ··] years [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 741)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 741)

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