750. Fragmentary funerary inscription for Venusia

Description:
The right-hand side of a panel (w: 0.21 x h: 0.16 x d: 0.015) of grey-flecked, white marble.  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Irregular capitals: 0.025. 
Date:
First to fourth century A.D. (terminology)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Port; From the East mole (Rel. Scav. 3.8.30 
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)
[·· ? ··]ia Venusia
[·· ? ·· pi]e uixit an(nos) LXX
[··]M
[·· ? ··]IAVENVSIA
[·· ? ·····]EVIXITANLXX
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
anibus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
ia
Venusia
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
pi
</supplied>
e
uixit
<expan>
<abbr>
an
</abbr>
<ex>
nos
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="70" >
LXX
</num>
</ab>

Translation:

To the gods below. [·· ? ··] Venusia [·· ? ··] lived dutifully for seventy years.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

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

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