Description:
Block (w: 0.56 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.12) of grey limestone, damaged on the left side.  
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded tabella ansata (die, w: 0.44 x h: 0.36).  
Letters:
Irregular capitals with some Rustic forms: l. 1, 0.04; ll. 2-6, 0.03. 
Date:
Second to third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Tomb near the ruins of Lepcis. Seen by Clermont-Ganneau (CRAcad. 1903, 340) < près d'un sépulchre récemment fouillé, un peu avant d'arriver aux ruines de Leptis>, presumably between Lepcis and Homs.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.  
Bibliography:
Clermont-Ganneau, Comptes rendus des Séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres. 1903, 340, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:22678. 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) 
Calpurniae Bargyddeni
et
Calpurnio Cerẹali et
Calpurnio Candido
5fecit Calpurnia Licinia Sadith
parentibus suis et fratṛị pietatis causa
CALPVRNIAEBARGYDDENI
ET
CALPVRNIOCER·ALIET
CALPVRNIOCANDIDO
5FECITCALPVRNIALICINIASADITH
PARENTIBVSSVISETFRAT··PIETATISCAVSA
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Calpurniae
Bargyddeni
<lb n="2" />
et
<lb n="3" />
Calpurnio
Cer
<unclear reason="" >
e
</unclear>
ali
et
<lb n="4" />
Calpurnio
Candido
<lb n="5" />
<app type="previouslyread" >
fecit
</app>
<app type="previouslyread" >
Calp
</app>
urnia
Licinia
Sadith
<lb n="6" />
<app type="previouslyread" >
parentibus
</app>
<app type="previouslyread" >
su
</app>
is
et
frat
<unclear reason="" >
ri
</unclear>
pietatis
causa
</ab>

5, The underlined letters, on a part of the block now lost, were read by Clermont-Ganneau.

Translation:

To Calpurnia Bargydden and Calpurnius Cerealis and Calpurnius Candidus; Calpurnia Licinia Sadith had (this) made for her parents and brother, from dutiful respect.

Commentary:

l. 2. Calpurnius Cerialis. See also 678.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.23)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.23)

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