751. Fragmentary funerary inscription for Victorina
- Description:
- Block (w: 1.12 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.50) of grey limestone.
- Text:
- The upper left-hand quarter of a text, inscribed on one face within a moulded tabella ansata (die, surviving, w: 0.79 x h: 0.43)..
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals: l. 1, 0.09; l. 2, 0.10.
- Date:
- First to fourth century A.D. (terminology)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Wadi Lebdah; Found on the East bank, North of the main road near the Casa Cantoniera
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, III:92. 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"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Diis
</supplied>
manibus
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Victorinae
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2a"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
Translation:
To the gods below of [·· ? ··] Victorina [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.15)
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