982. Christian funerary inscription of Maria and Theodorus
- Description:
- Chest-shaped tomb consisting of two blocks of sandstone (together, w: 1.83 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.48).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the right-hand stone.
- Letters:
- Irregular Greek letters, formed by a series of punched holes: l.1, 0.016-0.075; ll.2, 3, 0.01-0.08. Capitals and cursive letters mixed.
- Date:
- Sixth to seventh century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: cemetery: adjoining Church III; Found in situ at the head of the Colonnaded Street.1
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147, no. S.10.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds)
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Μαρία
Θεό
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
δω
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
ρος
</ab>
Translation:
Maria, Theodorus.
Commentary:
For a description of this church, which seems to have been built in the mid-VI century, see J.B. Ward Perkins and R.G. Goodchild, 'The Christian Antiquities of Tripolitania', Archaeologia, xcv (1953) 29 ff. The type of tomb concerned here is the second and later group distinguished by these authors.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 53 XV 31)
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