763. Funerary fragment
- Description:
- Fragment from the upper left-hand corner of a marble block (surviving, w: 0.255 x h: 0.155 x d: 0.075) with schematic pediment and acroteria above.
- Text:
- Inscribed within the pediment and below. a) Within the pediment. b) Below the pediment.
- Letters:
- a) 0.026 b) 0.016
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Severan Arch; Found in 1937, (Rel.Scav. 12.6.37).
- 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)
a
ΖΗ
bτύμβος ἐμοὶ κ[·· ? ··]
a
ΖΗ
bΤΥΜΒΟΣΕΜΟΙΚ[·· ? ··]
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</div>
<orig
>
</ab>
ΖΗ
</orig>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</div>
τύμβος
ἐμοὶ
κ
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
</ab>
Presumably κεῖται, but there is a space on the stone after the κ.
Translation:
(a) He/she lives. (b) The tomb [was made] for me [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 2013 Leica)
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