727. Funerary inscription for Marcia Eutychia

Description:
Triangular-headed stele (w: 0.33 x h: 1.04 x d: 0.19) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.24 x h: 0.16).. 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: l. 1, 0.03; ll. 2-4, 0.02. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Wadi Lebdah; On the left bank, about 50 m. North of the Main Road. Found in situ on a tomb 
Original Location:
Findspot 
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:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
D(is) m(anibus) s(acrum)
Marcia Eutychia uixit
ann(os) XXXXVII Cornelius
Marsus uxori suae fecit
DMS
MARCIAEVTYCHIAVIXIT
ANNXXXXVIICORNELIVS
MARSVSVXORISVAEFECIT
<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" />
Marcia
Eutychia
uixit
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
ann
</abbr>
<ex>
os
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="47" >
XXXXVII
</num>
Cornelius
<lb n="4" />
Marsus
uxori
suae
fecit
</ab>

Translation:

Sacred to the gods below; Marcia Eutychia lived for forty-seven years. Cornelius Marsus had (this) made for his wife.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.33)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.33)

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