241. Funerary inscription for Lucius Aemilius Pacorus

Description:
Marble panel (w: 0.26 x h: 0.21) 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Capitals (probably second century.) l. 1, 0.025; remainder, 0.02.  
Date:
Probably second century (lettering) 
Findspot:
Oea: 20 metres in front of the Church of S. Francesco, Tripoli. Found with the remains of a tomb containing an amphora burial. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Since lost. Not seen. 
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:
Text from a rubbing in the Superintendency archives; transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
D(is) m(anibus)
L(ucio) Aemil(io) Pacoro
qui uixit annis L
menses IIII d(ies) X
5 Aemil(ia) Calliope
coniux marito pi-
issimo fecit
DM
LAEMILPACORO
QVIVIXITANNISL
MENSESIIIIDX
5AEMILCALLIOPE
CONIVXMARITOPI
ISSIMOFECIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
anibus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucio
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Aemil
</abbr>
<ex>
io
</ex>
</expan>
Pacoro
<lb n="3" />
qui
uixit
annis
<num value="50" >
L
</num>
<lb n="4" />
menses
<num value="4" >
IIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ies
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="10" >
X
</num>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Aemil
</abbr>
<ex>
ia
</ex>
</expan>
Calliope
<lb n="6" />
coniux
marito
pi
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
issimo
fecit
</ab>

Translation:

To the gods below. Lucius Aemilius Pacorus who lived 50 years, 4 months and 10 days. Aemilia Calliope his wife made this for a most dutiful husband.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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