662. Funerary fragment
- Description:
- Marble block; the right-hand edge is broken, and the upper edge may be broken also.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the front and carved on the left face with an amphora.
- Letters:
- No description
- Date:
- First to fourth century A.D. (nomenclature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Gasr ed-Doueirat. Seen in 1895 with 755, beside the remains of a mausoleum 20 minutes to the South (see 729).
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1895)
- Bibliography:
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:22685; after Clermont-Ganneau, Comptes rendus des Séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres, 1903, 341 (with sketch). 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:
- Previous publications
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="0"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
id="gap1"
/>
<lb
n="1"
/>
uies
iuu
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
bus
bo
<unclear
reason=""
>
n
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
memoria
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
biae
Ann
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
at
</unclear>
ae
quae
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
uixit
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
an
</supplied>
<lb
n="6"
type="worddiv"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
n
</unclear>
is
<num
value="16"
>
XVI
</num>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
uirgin
</supplied>
<lb
n="7"
type="worddiv"
/>
ali
pudiciti
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
a
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] to the good memory of [Vi]bia Ann[·· ? ··]ata, who lived for sixteen years with maidenly modesty [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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