154. Funerary inscription for Aemili-

Description:
Top left-hand corner of a marble panel (w: 0.23 x h: 0.24).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: 0.05. 
Date:
Unknown  
Findspot:
Sabratha :Found in Reg. II, in the street between ins. 10 and 13 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Sabratha 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) 
D(is) m(anibus)
Aemili[·· ? ··]
piissim[·· ? ··]
uix(it) an[nos ·· ? ··]
DM
AEMILI[·· ? ··]
PIISSIM[·· ? ··]
VIXAN[······ ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
anibus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Aemili
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
piissim
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
uix
</abbr>
<ex>
it
</ex>
</expan>
an
<supplied reason="lost" >
nos
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

To the gods below. Aemilius [·· ? ··] most dutiful [·· ? ··] lived for [·· ? ··] years [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.29)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.29)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 836 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 836 Leica)

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