681. Funerary inscription for Claudia Saluia
- Description:
- Rectangular base (w: 0 50 x h: 1.12 x d: 0.53) of coarse grey limestone, with moulded panels on all sides.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face (die, w: 0.27 x h: 0.66).
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals: av. 0.06.
- Date:
- First to third century A.D. (nomenclature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Mausolea East of the city (Bartoccini MS notes). Formerly in Homs Museum
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:22681. 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:
- Bartoccini MS notes; 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"
/>
Clau
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
diae
<lb
n="4"
/>
Salui
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
ae
Translation:
To the gods below of Claudia Salvia.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 274 Lastre)
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