654. ?Funerary inscription of Boncar Clodius
- Description:
- Block (w: 0.78 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.12) of grey limestone, much worn.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a tabella ansata (die, w: 0.40 x h: 0.26); one line of Neo-Punic (Neo-Punic 5);. follows the Greek and Latin texts. The Neo-Punic text is a translation of the Latin and Greek.
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals: av. 0.035.
- Date:
- First to third century A.D. (nomenclature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: East part of the ruins at Lepcis, found together with 655 and uniform with it.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Tripoli Castle.
- Bibliography:
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:15; Inscriptiones Graecae ad Res Romanas pertinentes, I:937; Bartoccini, Museo di Tripoli,1923, 98. 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>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Bonca
<unclear
reason=""
>
r
</unclear>
<unclear
reason=""
>
Me
</unclear>
crasi
Clodi
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
us
medicus
</ab>
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="3"
/>
Βώ
<app
type="previouslyread"
>
νχαρ
</app>
<app
type="previouslyread"
>
Μεχράσι
</app>
<app
type="previouslyread"
>
Κλώδι
</app>
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
<app
type="previouslyread"
>
ος
</app>
<app
type="previouslyread"
>
ἰατρός
</app>
3-4, Underlined letters were read in 1846 (CIL VIII, 15) but are no longer visible.
Translation:
Boncar Clodius son of Mecrasus, doctor (in Latin)
Boncar Clodius son of Mecrasus, doctor (in Greek)
Commentary:
ll. 1-2. Boncar Mercrasi Clodius. Also in 655, ll. 1-2.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 677 Leica)
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