875. Christian funerary inscription
- Description:
- Block (w: 0.72 x h: 0.55 x d: 0.31) of yellowish limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed within a recessed tabella ansata (die, w: 0.40 x h: 0.45), with leaves in relief below the ansae.
- Letters:
- Local fourth to fifth century A.D. capitals, between horizontal guide-lines as in 876: 0.03-0.04. T and I are not consistently distinguished.
- Date:
- Fourth to fifth centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Eastern Djebel: From an unidentified site on the road between Al Khadra village and Tarhuna.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- 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"
/>
Flauii
Sebentius
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
en
</ex>
<abbr>
t
</abbr>
<ex>
e
</ex>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
arius
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
et
Stiddin
<unclear
reason=""
>
e
</unclear>
ius
con
<lb
n="3"
/>
iunx
hunc
locum
<lb
n="4"
/>
didicarunt
<orig
>
o
</orig>
bonum
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<unclear
reason=""
>
ni
</unclear>
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
tium
natisqui
filiis
conci
<unclear
reason=""
>
l
</unclear>
<lb
n="6"
type="worddiv"
/>
ium
saluis
libiris
<lb
n="7"
/>
cum
filicitati
trium
<lb
n="8"
type="worddiv"
/>
fanti
Binaitir
possissu
4, o: Probably an uncompleted monogram cross, as in the closely related 876.
Translation:
The Flavii Sebentius, centenarius, and Stiddin, his wife, dedicated this place, a good beginning and for the children born to them a place in which to come together with their children safe, happily, triumphing in the possession of Binaitir.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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