761. Funerary fragment

Description:
Fragment from the upper part of a re-used marble panel (w: 00.9 x h: 0.19 x d: 0.035) with a moulding on the reverse face.  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Irregular capitals: 0.025. 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
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)
[·· ? ··]ianu[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] mag[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] m(enses) III [·· ? ··]
5 [·· ? ··] VII pr[idie ·· ? ··]
[··]MS
[·· ? ··]IANV[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]MAG[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]MIII[·· ? ··]
5[·· ? ··]VIIPR[······· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
anibus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
acrum
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
ianu
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
mag
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
enses
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="3" >
III
</num>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<num value="7" >
VII
</num>
pr
<supplied reason="lost" >
idie
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

Sacred to the gods below. [·· ? ··he/she lived ? years] three months [and ? days, and died on the] seventh [day] before [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.28)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.28)

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