676. Funerary inscription by Calpurnia Licina Sadith
- Description:
- Block (w: 0.56 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.12) of grey limestone, damaged on the left side.
- Text:
- Inscribed within a moulded tabella ansata (die, w: 0.44 x h: 0.36).
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals with some Rustic forms: l. 1, 0.04; ll. 2-6, 0.03.
- Date:
- Second to third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Tomb near the ruins of Lepcis. Seen by Clermont-Ganneau (CRAcad. 1903, 340) < près d'un sépulchre récemment fouillé, un peu avant d'arriver aux ruines de Leptis>, presumably between Lepcis and Homs.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Clermont-Ganneau, Comptes rendus des Séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres. 1903, 340, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:22678. 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"
/>
Calpurniae
Bargyddeni
<lb
n="2"
/>
et
<lb
n="3"
/>
Calpurnio
Cer
<unclear
reason=""
>
e
</unclear>
ali
et
<lb
n="4"
/>
Calpurnio
Candido
<lb
n="5"
/>
<app
type="previouslyread"
>
fecit
</app>
<app
type="previouslyread"
>
Calp
</app>
urnia
Licinia
Sadith
<lb
n="6"
/>
<app
type="previouslyread"
>
parentibus
</app>
<app
type="previouslyread"
>
su
</app>
is
et
frat
<unclear
reason=""
>
ri
</unclear>
pietatis
causa
</ab>
5, The underlined letters, on a part of the block now lost, were read by Clermont-Ganneau.
Translation:
To Calpurnia Bargydden and Calpurnius Cerealis and Calpurnius Candidus; Calpurnia Licinia Sadith had (this) made for her parents and brother, from dutiful respect.
Commentary:
l. 2. Calpurnius Cerialis. See also 678.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.23)
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