749. Funerary inscription for Theuduta.
- Description:
- Part of a round-topped stele (surviving, w: 0.33 x h: 0.28 x d: 0.04) of sandstone broken at the base.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- 0.05-0.02.
- Date:
- First to fifth century A.D. (terminology)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Stroppa, Lebda (Leptis Magna), Vercelli, 1912, 75; L. Robert, Rev. Et. Gr., 1953, LXVI:202. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952; including revisions from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
2-3, Θευλύτας, Robert: The stone, which has been re-examined, certainly reads Θευλύτας; there may have been a cutter's error, but for the form Θευδυ[... , see also SEG IX, 726.
4, Αἰγλάνο[ρο]ς τοῦ, Robert : Faintly surviving traces of the letters in square brackets are consistent with this reading, which should be accepted.
Translation:
Memorial of Theudyta, daughter of Aiglanor the son of Timocrates; she died (here)
Commentary:
Robert asked whether this stone might not have been brought from Cyrene to Lepcis; its material (sandstone) and findspot (Forum Severianum) make this most improbable.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1543 Leica)
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