Description:
Marble tomb-relief (w: 0.72 x h: 0.84 x d: 0.28); between two pilasters, half-length figures of a man and woman in high relief; below, a rectangular projection which is inscribed within a tabella ansata. 
Text:
Inscribed within a tabella ansata (die, w: 0.37 x h: 0.27). The last line is cut below the die. 
Letters:
Irregular capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.045-0.03. 
Date:
Second to third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Wadi Lebdah 
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) 
Diis manibus Ati-
lia Marith ui-
xit annor(um) XXX m(ensium) III
dier(um) XXV Atilius Corinthu[s]
5 [A]urellianus fecit uxori su-
ae sanctissimae et fideliss[i]-
mae
DIISMANIBVSATI
LIAMARITHVI
XITANNORXXXMIII
DIERXXVATILIVSCORINTHV[··]
5[··]VRELLIANVSFECITVXORISV
AESANCTISSIMAEETFIDELISS[··]
MAE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Diis
manibus
Ati
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
lia
Marith
ui
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
xit
<expan>
<abbr>
annor
</abbr>
<ex>
um
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="30" >
XXX
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
ensium
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="3" >
III
</num>
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
dier
</abbr>
<ex>
um
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="25" >
XXV
</num>
Atilius
Corinthu
<supplied reason="lost" >
s
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
A
</supplied>
urellianus
fecit
uxori
su
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
ae
sanctissimae
et
fideliss
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
mae
</ab>

Translation:

To the gods below. Atilia Marith lived for thirty years, three months and twenty-five days. Atilius Corinthus Aurellianus had (this) made for his most moral and faithful wife.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 76 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 76 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.26)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.26)

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