Description:
Marble
panel (w:
0.12 x h:
0.15 x d:
0.04), bevelled on the inner face and pierced with vertical holes at top and bottom of the beveline There is a square recess
5 mm. deep in the centre of the inscribed face.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Third century CE capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.01-0.015.
Date: Third century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Sabratha:
Found in the cemetery area near the Christian Catacomb to the E of the Theatre
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Sabratha Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Sacred to the gods below; Varigata; Lucius Munatius Dexter, veteran soldier; he lived conscientiously for 55 years; may your bones rest quietly; may the earth lie lightly on you. He is laid here.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 108, whence IRT, 2009, 108, whence EDH 059095; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 389)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 390)