984. Christian funerary inscription.
- Description:
- Tomb formed of a block of sandstone tapering slightly from head to foot (w: 0.47 x h: 1.13), originally stuccoed and inscribed on the stuccoed surface, which is now almost entirely lost.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the stuccoed surface: the inscription survives only where the letters were cut through the stucco and into the stone below.
- Letters:
- Rough capitals: 0.45-0.106.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Church III; in situ in the cemetery adjoining the church and the South Wall of the Forum Severianum. For this church see commentary on 982.
- 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.12.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="0"
/>
<g
type="crux"
>
</g>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Κ
</abbr>
<ex>
ύρι
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
ε
</abbr>
<expan>
<abbr>
βο
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ήθει
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
extentmax="2"
/>
<orig
>
εο
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
extentmax="2"
/>
<lb
n="2a"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="4"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
<lb
n="2b"
/>
<g
type="crux"
>
</g>
Translation:
(Cross) Lord, give help [·· ? ··] (Cross)
Commentary:
Κ(ύρι)ε βο(ήθει) see also 829, from Church III.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 53 X 05)
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