705. Funerary inscription for Fulvia Crescentilla
- Description:
- Fragments of a marble column (diam. 0.62: height together of the two inscribed fragments 1.49, and of one uninscribed fragment 1.38).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- l. 2, 0.190; l. 3, 0.150; l. 4, 0.095; l. 5, 0.175; l. 6. 0.105; l. 7, 0.070.
- Date:
- First to fouth centuries A.D. (nomenclature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: 2 km East of Ras el-Mergheb. Seen by Aurigemma in 1912, beside the ruins of an ancient building on a small hill and a little south-east of the mausoleum of Gasr Bu-Maser, near a house called Casa Iorio. Since lost; not seen.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 III:86, fig. 5. 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"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear
reason=""
>
</abbr>
D
</unclear>
<ex>
</expan>
is
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear
reason=""
>
</abbr>
m
</unclear>
<ex>
</expan>
anibus
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Fuluiae
<lb
n="3"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
C
</supplied>
<unclear
reason=""
>
rescentillae
</unclear>
<lb
n="4"
/>
uxoris
sanctissimae
<lb
n="5"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uintus
</ex>
Marcius
<lb
n="6"
/>
Candidus
Rusonianus
<lb
n="7"
/>
maritus
fecit
Translation:
To the gods below of Fulvia Crescentilla, his most chaste wife; Quintus Marcus Candidus Rusonianus, her husband, had (this) made.
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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