669. Funerary inscription

Description:
Panel (w: 0.53 x h: 0.44 x d: 0.14) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.33 x h: 0.15).  
Letters:
Rustic capitals: l. 1, 0.04 ; l. 2, 0.055 ; l. 3. 0.03. 
Date:
Second to third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded 
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) 
D(is) m(anibus)
Aurelius Eros
filius patri sanctissimo p(osuit)
DM
AVRELIVSEROS
FILIVSPATRISANCTISSIMOP
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
anibus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Aurelius
Eros
<lb n="3" />
filius
patri
sanctissimo
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
osuit
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

To the gods below. Aurelius Eros, his son, set (this) up for a most dutiful father.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.12)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.12)

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