159. Funerary fragment
- Description:
- Fragment from the upper part of a marble panel (w: 0.50 x h: 0.75 x d: 0.13), probably part of a sarcophagus front, inscribed within a wreath(die, diam. 0.54), with a flange above and traces of a supporting figure (?) to R.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Third century A.D. capitals: 0.05-0.055.
- Date:
- Third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Found in the Concessione Secchi, 500m. S of the former railway station at Sabratha (map ref. P 833605)
- 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>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
is
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
anibus
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
D
</supplied>
omiti
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
simi
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<g
type="stop"
>
</g>
tri
<g
type="stop"
>
</g>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
u
</orig>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
4, TRI between stops.
Translation:
To the gods below of Domitius [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 253)
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