752. Funerary inscription for Gn. Vituiasius Africanus
- Description:
- Rectangular base (w: 0.51 x h: 1.08 x d: 0.50) of compact but friable grey-brown limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a faintly recessed panel.
- Letters:
- Second to third century capitals: l.1, 0.09; l.2, 0.085; l.3, 0.07
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Mausolea East of the city (Bartoccini MS notes). Formerly in Homs Museum
- 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)
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Cn
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aeo
</ex>
Vituia
<lb
n="2"
/>
sio
Africano
<lb
n="3"
/>
heredes
</ab>
1, The reading is certain but see Vitulasia in 650.
Translation:
To Cnaeus Vituiasius (Vitulasius ?) Africanus; his heirs (erected this).
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVII.25)
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