586. Fragmentary funerary inscription
- Description:
- Fragment of a panel (w: 0.11 x h: 0.13, no edges surviving) of grey marble.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Roughly incised capitals: 0.03.
- Date:
- First to third century A.D. (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis 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"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<abbr>
ic
</abbr>
leg
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
t
uixi
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
t
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
annos
</supplied>
<num
value="40"
>
XXXX
</num>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] ?of legion [·· ? ··] he lived forty (up to forty-nine) years [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.31)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.9)
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