743. Funerary inscription for Faustinus Cunnus

Description:
Triangular-headed stele (w: 0.21 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.11) of coarse grey limestone, a rosette within the triangle.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a recessed tabella ansata (die, w: 0.13 x h: 0.13). 
Letters:
0.02-0.025.  
Date:
First to fourth century A.D. (terminology)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded 
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:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
D(is) m(anibus) s(acrum)
SIZ AYR
Faustini
Cunni
DMS
SIZAYR
FAVSTINI
CVNNI
<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" />
<orig >
siz
</orig>
<orig >
ayr
</orig>
<lb n="3" />
Faustini
<lb n="4" />
Cunni
</ab>

Translation:

Sacred to the gods below, of [·· ? ··] Aurelius Faustinus Cunnus.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XIV.16)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XIV.16)

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