692. Funerary inscription for Q. Domitius Camillus Nysim

Description:
Block (w: 1.06 x h: 0.50) of grey limestone built into the inner face of the Fourth centuty wall, where it interrupts (see Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, VI:110-120).  
Text:
Inscribed within a tabella ansata (die, w: 0.535 x h: 0.31). 
Letters:
ll. 1-4, capitals with some Rustic forms, av. 0.04-0.05; l.5, Rustic capitals, 0.03.  
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: House of the Orpheus Mosaic; Found on the street leading West from the house. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Now covered by sand; not seen. 
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) 
Q(uintus) Domitius Camillus
Critonis f(ilius) Nysim
uixit annis XX d(iebus) L
M(arcus) Domitius Crito
5pater filio quieto fecit
QDOMITIVSCAMILLVS
CRITONISFNYSIM
VIXITANNISXXDL
MDOMITIVSCRITO
5PATERFILIOQVIETOFECIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uintus
</ex>
</expan>
Domitius
Camillus
<lb n="2" />
Critonis
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilius
</ex>
</expan>
Nysim
<lb n="3" />
uixit
annis
<num value="20" >
XX
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
iebus
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="50" >
L
</num>
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arcus
</ex>
</expan>
Domitius
Crito
<lb n="5" />
pater
filio
quieto
fecit
</ab>

Translation:

Quintus Domitius Camillus Nysim, son of Crito, lived twenty years, fifty days. Marcus Domitius Crito, his father, had (this) made for a peaceable son.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 948)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 948)

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