741. Funerary inscription for Septimia Cariota

Description:
Round-topped stele, rising in one block from a rough base (w: 0.28 x h: 0.70 x d: 0.11) of fine grey-brown limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Rough capitals, probably third century: av. 0.035. 
Date:
Probably third century (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Homs. Found with 711 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) 
D(is) m(anibus) s(acrum)
Septimia
Cariota
h(ic) s(ita) e(st)
DMS
SEPTIMIA
CARIOTA
HSE
<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" />
Septimia
<lb n="3" />
Cariota
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
h
</abbr>
<ex>
ic
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ita
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
<ex>
st
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

Sacred to the gods below. Septimia Cariota is buried here.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.17)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.17)

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