699. Funerary inscription for Flaminia Agaue

Description:
Triangular-headed stele (w: 0.33 x h: 1.01 x d: 0.20) of fine grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within an incised border (die, w: 0.26 x ). 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.04. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.  
Bibliography:
Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli), April 1933 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) 
D(is) m(anibus)
Flaminia
Agau(e) uixit
annis n(umero) LXVI
5 m(ensibus) VIIII
DM
FLAMINIA
AGAVVIXIT
ANNISNLXVI
5MVIIII
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
anibus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Flaminia
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Agau
</abbr>
<ex>
e
</ex>
</expan>
uixit
<lb n="4" />
annis
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
umero
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="66" >
LXVI
</num>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
ensibus
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="9" >
VIIII
</num>
</ab>

Translation:

To the gods below. Flaminia Agave; she lived sixty-six years and nine months.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XIV.38)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XIV.38)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 841)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 841)

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