114. Funerary inscription for Flacianus
- Description:
- Part of a white marble sarcophagus lid (w: 0.41 x h: 0.22 x d: 0.05), width incomplete. With a winged genius (L) upholding an inscribed panel . A second fragment portrays the legs of the second supporting figure.
- Text:
- Inscribed (h: 0.10).
- Letters:
- Third century A.D. capitals 0.015-0.018.
- Date:
- Third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Findspot unrecorded
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Sabratha 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)
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Aur
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
elius
</ex>
Flacianus
<unclear
reason=""
>
P
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
sacerdotalis
scola
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
felix
et
cum
uiuere
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
t
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
moreretur
fuit
fi
<unclear
reason=""
>
l
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="5"
/>
uixit
annis
<num
value="50"
>
</ab>
L
</num>
Translation:
Aurelius Flacianus [·· ? ··] priestly ? school [·· ? ··], fortunate both when he lived [?and when] he died. He was ? son [of·· ? ··]; he lived 50 years.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XI.14)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 828 Leica)
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