847. Fragmentary christian inscription
- Description:
- Block of sandstone (w: 0.52 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.54) stuccoed and painted in red on one face.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Free capitals with cursive and uncial forms.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepeis 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<orig
>
aili
</orig>
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
omi
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
ne
</abbr>
<orig
>
yanil
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<orig
>
atiy
</orig>
iubenti
<g
type="tau-rho"
>
</g>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<g
type="spray"
>
</g>
Translation:
AILI oh Lord YANIL [·· ? ··] ATIY to one ? bidding (Monogram cross)
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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