695. Funerary inscription for Elia Victoria Masquiitana

Description:
Engaged half-column (w: 0.51 x h: 0.47 x d: 1.05) of soft grey-brown limestone, re-used horizontally as part of a tomb. 
Text:
Inscribed on one end within a moulded border (die, w: 0.42 x h: 0.31).  
Letters:
Irregular capitals: 0.035-0.045 (uncial Q). 
Date:
First to fifth centuries A.D. (formulae)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Decumanus maximus, Reg. I, immediately West of the Arch of Severus. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, IV: 40. 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) 
D(is) m(anibus) s(acrum)
Elia Victoria
Masquiitana
uixit an(n)is [··]XXI
5Elius Datus fecit
DMS
ELIAVICTORIA
MASQVIITANA
VIXITANIS[··]XXI
5ELIVSDATVSFECIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
anibus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
acrum
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Elia
Victoria
<lb n="3" />
Masquiitana
<lb n="4" />
uixit
<expan>
<abbr>
an
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
is
</abbr>
</expan>
<num >
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
XXI
</num>
<lb n="5" />
Elius
Datus
fecit
</ab>

Translation:

Sacred to the gods below. Elia Victoria Masquiitana. she lived (at least) twenty-one years. Elius Datus had (this) made.

Commentary:

l. 3. Bartoccini reads Masqulitana and derives from Mascula, see CIL VIII, p. 248.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 761)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 761)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.27)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.27)

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