682. Funerary inscription
- Description:
- Block of limestone, with mouldings.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- No description
- Date:
- First to third century A.D. (nomenclature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Shore Seen in 1895 lying isolated on the shore < peu avant d'arriver aux ruines>, presumably to the West of the city. Since lost. Not seen.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1895)
- Bibliography:
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:22680; after Clermont-Ganneau, Comptes rendus des Séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres 1903, 341 (with sketch). 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:
- Previous publications
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Dis
manusibus
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Claud
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
a
<unclear
reason=""
>
</abbr>
e
</unclear>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
S
</supplied>
ab
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
na
<unclear
reason=""
>
</abbr>
e
</unclear>
<lb
n="3"
/>
Soteri
<unclear
reason=""
>
c
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
1, manusibus: sic
Translation:
To the gods below of Claudia Sabina ?Soterica [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
The last surviving word might be a name in the nominative of a person who set up the monument.
- Photographs:
- none.
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