755. Fragmentary funerary inscription

Description:
Block of marble, resembling a base (height recorded as 0.30, an obvious error). Seen with 662 in 1895, lying half-buried (see 729). Not seen.  
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded panel, (length of line of text 0.34), damaged at the upper left-hand corner; l. 1 is cut above the die, ll. 12-13 below it. 
Letters:
No description. 
Date:
First to fifth century A.D. (terminology)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Gasr ed-Doueirat. Seen in 1895 beside the remains of a mausoleum 20 minutes south. Not seen again. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1895) 
Bibliography:
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII: 22675, after Clermont-Ganneau, Comptes rendus des Séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres 1903, 342 (with sketch). 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:
Previous publications 
[·· ? ··] NVM DE [·]
[---]
3 [---]
4 [·· ? ··] NB [··]
5 [·· ? ··] MORI
[·· ? ··] ẠOGE
[·· ? ··]ntiano
[·· ? ··]nis annui
[l]onga gaeneros(i)
10tate ornati qui uix(it)
ann(os) XXII m(enses) III et
[·· ? ··] BEḶḶḶ [···] SSV [··]
ium ciuium suo[rum]
[·· ? ··]NVMDE[·]
[---]
3[---]
4[·· ? ··]NB[··]
5[·· ? ··]MORI
[·· ? ··]·OGE
[·· ? ··]NTIANO
[·· ? ··]NISANNVI
[··]ONGAGAENEROS
10TATEORNATIQVIVIX
ANNXXIIMIIIET
[·· ? ··]BE···[···]SSV[··]
IVMCIVIVMSVO[····]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
NVM
</orig>
<orig >
DE
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="line" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="line" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
NB
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
MORI
</orig>
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="damage" >
A
</unclear>
OGE
</orig>
<lb n="7" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
ntiano
<lb n="8" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
nis
annui
<lb n="9" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
l
</supplied>
onga
<expan>
<abbr>
gaeneros
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="10" />
tate
ornati
qui
<expan>
<abbr>
uix
</abbr>
<ex>
it
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="11" />
<expan>
<abbr>
ann
</abbr>
<ex>
os
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="22" >
XXII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
enses
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="3" >
III
</num>
et
<lb n="12" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
BE
<unclear reason="damage" >
LLL
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<orig >
SSV
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<lb n="13" />
ium
ciuium
suo
<supplied reason="lost" >
rum
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··](l.7) (to, from or by)[·· ? ··]ntianus [·· ? ··] of annual [·· ? ··] adorned with long-standing generosity, who lived twenty-two years, three months and [? days·· ? ··] of his fellow-citizens.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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