679. Funerary inscription for Q. Calvisius Amicus
- Description:
- Lower part of a moulded base (w: 0.67 x h: 0.90 x d: 0.97; height incomplete) of grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die, w: 0.47 x h: 0.70).
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals, late second to third centuries A.D.: av. 0.07.
- Date:
- Late second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Mausolea East of the city (Bartoccini MS notes). Formerly in Homs Museum
- 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:
- Bartoccini MS notes; Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Dis
mani
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
bus
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uinti
</ex>
Cal
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
uisi
Amic
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<lb
n="4"
/>
unicae
in
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
dulgenti
<lb
n="6"
type="worddiv"
/>
ae
mari
<lb
n="7"
type="worddiv"
/>
ti
Caluisia
<lb
n="8"
type="worddiv"
/>
na
uxor
posuit
Translation:
To the gods below of Quintus Calvisius Amicus, a husband of unique indulgence; Calvisiana, his wife, had this set up.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 502)
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