Description:
Chest-shaped tomb, consisting of two blocks of stuccoed sandstone (w: 0.32 x h: 1.15). 
Text:
Incised (once painted) inscription. Below the inscription follows a cross and two inverted palm-branches, see also 846.  
Letters:
0.05-0.08  
Date:
Fifth century - sixth 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) 
[·· ? ··]s
ḅon(a)e
ṃemo-
ri(a)e Iae-
5nni(a)e
qui bi-
x̣it an-
[nos]
septe-
10m p(lus) m(inus)
crux
[·· ? ··]S
·ONE
·EMO
RIEIAE
5NNIE
QVIBI
·ITAN
[····]
SEPTE
10MPM
crux
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
s
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear reason="damage" >
b
</unclear>
on
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
m
</unclear>
emo
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
<expan>
<abbr>
ri
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Iae
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
nni
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<lb n="6" />
qui
bi
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
x
</unclear>
it
an
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
nos
</supplied>
<lb n="9" />
septe
<lb n="10" type="worddiv" />
m
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
lus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
inus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="11" />
<g type="crux" > </g>
</ab>

4-5, Or Laenniae.

Translation:

[·· ? ··] To the good memory of Iaennias who lived approximately seven years.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 738)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 738)

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