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840. Christian funerary inscription

Description:: Square marble slab (w: 0.90 x h: 0.98), re-used.
Text:: Inscribed when the slab was already cracked. The text concludes with a spray ending in a cross.
Letters:: 0.045-0.065; capitals, with uncial D in the last line.
Date:: Fifth century A.D. (context)
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in situ beside 835.
Original Location:: Findspot
Last recorded location:: Findspot
Bibliography:: Bartoccini, Rivista di Archeologia cristiana della Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia sacra VIII:46, no.5 , fig 11. 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 requiesciet fili-
us Stefani loci s-
erbatori(s) in(n)ocens
nomine Long(i)n-
5us bixit dies
sebte(m) men-
se Septem-
ber ind(ictione) XI (sic)

tau-rho HICREQVIESCIETFILI
VSSTEFANILOCIS
ERBATORIINOCENS
NOMINELONGN
5VSBIXITDIES
SEBTEMEN
SESEPTEM
BERINDXI(sic)

<ab>

Hic

requiesciet

fili

Stefani

loci

<expan>

<abbr>

erbatori

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

ocens

</abbr>

</expan>

nomine

<expan>

<abbr>

Long

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

</expan>

bixit

dies

<expan>

<abbr>

sebte

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

men

Septem

ber

<expan>

<abbr>

ind

</abbr>

<ex>

ictione

</ex>

</expan>

</num>

<note>

sic

</note>

</ab>

Translation:

(Monogram cross) Here lies the son of Stephanus, the guardian of this place, an innocent named Longinus. He lived for seven days in the month of September in the eleventh indiction.