Christian funerary inscription for a bishop
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Fifth-sixth centuries CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], 2.b, whence [...] 50.1647; [...], 345.2 and fig. 288, whence [...], 2004.437

Θεόδοτοϲ ἐπίϲκοποϲ ἐνθάδε κεῖται

Translations

Theodotos the bishop lies here

Commentary

This is the only bishop's tomb that has so far been identified in Cyrenaica. Theodotos was presumably another of the rural bishops for which the provinces of Libya Superior and Libya Inferior are well-known; they are of course a natural development in an area where the number of cities was small and the rural territory large.