674. Funerary inscription by Caecilia Namgyddi
- Description:
- Panel (w: 0.28 x h: 0.30) of grey-flecked, white marble.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Irregular third century A.D. with some Rustic forms: 0.018-0.02.
- Date:
- Third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Fort Victor Emmanuel.
- 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)
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Fecit
et
posuit
Cae
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
cilia
Namgyddi
fi
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
lio
suo
Africano
Gi
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
nus
carissimo
ani
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
mo
et
patris
suo
<note>
sic
</note>
<lb
n="6"
/>
Caecilio
Ginus
</ab>
Translation:
Caecilia Namgyddi had (this) made and set it up for her son Africanus Ginus, a very dear soul, and for her father, Caecilius Ginus.
Commentary:
ll. 1-2. Caecilia Namgyddi. For a similar name see also 244. ll. 2-3.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XIII.15)
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