729. Funerary building inscription

Description:: Lintel of grey limestone (w: 2.71 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.40) broken in two pieces.
Text:: Inscribed within a moulded tabella ansata (die, w: 1.24 x h: 0.50, ivy leaf in each ansa).
Letters:: Rustic capitals: ll. 1-3, 0.06-0.065; l. 4, 0.045-0.05.
Date:: Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Gasr ed-Doueirat; Beside the mausoleum, on the left bank of the Wadi Lebdah, about 2 km. above Lepcis
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Lying broken in two pieces, beside the mausoleum.
Bibliography:: Bartoccini, Rivista della Tripolitania (Rivista a cura dell'Ufficio di Colonizzazione del Governo della Tripolitania), 2 vols., Roma, 1924-5; a third vol., under the title Libya, published for the Ministero delle Colonie, was issued in 1927 I:322; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1925:106; P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925 165 ff.; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1926:167. 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)

C(aio) Mario Iouino et C(aio) Mario et
Mariae Victorinae et Marso f(ilio) eius
C(aius) Marius Pudens Boccius Zurgem et Velia
Longina Bibai parentes f[il]ịis et nepoti fecerunt

CMARIOIOVINOETCMARIOET
MARIAEVICTORINAEETMARSOFEIVS
CMARIVSPVDENSBOCCIVSZVRGEMETVELIA
LONGINABIBAIPARENTESF[···]·ISETNEPOTIFECERVNT

<ab>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

aio

</ex>

</expan>

Mario

Iouino

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

aio

</ex>

</expan>

Mario

Mariae

Victorinae

Marso

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ilio

</ex>

</expan>

eius

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

aius

</ex>

</expan>

Marius

Pudens

Boccius

Zurgem

Velia

Longina

Bibai

parentes

</supplied>

</unclear>

nepoti

fecerunt

</ab>

Translation:

To Caius Marius Iovinus and Caius Marius and Maria Victorina and Marsus her son; Caius Marius Pudens Boccius Zurgem and Velia Longina Bibai, their parents had (this) made for their children and grandson.