711. Funerary inscription for Imaia Iunia Victoria
- Description:
- Round-topped stele (w: 0.27 x h: 0.84 x d: 0.15) of fine grey-brown limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed within a recessed panel (die, w: 0.22 x h: 0.27), cut as a rudimentary tabella ansata; above the recess, a crescent in relief.
- Letters:
- Rough capitals, probably third century: 0.02-0.025.
- Date:
- Probably third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Homs. Found with 741 beside a marabout, near the West walls (Bartoccini MS notes)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- 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:
- Bartoccini MS notes; Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Dis
mani
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
bus
<expan>
<abbr>
sacr
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
um
</ex>
Im
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
aia
Iunia
Vi
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
ctoria
uix
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
it
annos
<lb
n="6"
/>
<num
value="14"
>
XIV
</num>
Translation:
Sacred to the gods below. Imaia Junia Victoria lived for fourteen years.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XI.6)
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