166. Funerary fragment
- Description:
- Part of the left-hand side of a marble sarcophagus front (w: 0.64 x h: 0.60), inscribed within a moulded tabella ansata (die, surviving width w: 0.18 x h: 0.205), which is flanked (L) by a winged putto, cloaked and supporting a continuous garland of pomegranates and bay.
- Text:
- Inscribed within a moulded tabella ansata (die, surviving width w: 0.18 x h: 0.205)
- Letters:
- Capitals, with some Rustic forms l. 1, 0.06; Il. 2-3, 0.035.
- Date:
- Unknown
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Findspot unrecorded
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
is
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
anibus
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Stat
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
Ru
<unclear
reason=""
>
f
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
To the gods below [·· ? ··] ? Statius [·· ? ··] Rufus [·· ? ··] (cases unknown)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 148)
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