Description: Part of a white marble
sarcophagus lid (w:
0.41 x h:
0.22 x d:
0.05), width incomplete. With a winged genius (L) upholding an inscribed panel . A second fragment portrays the legs of the
second supporting figure.
Text: Inscribed (h:
0.10).
Letters: Third century CE capitals 0.015-0.018.
Date: Third century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Sabratha Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Aurelius Flacianus [---] priestly ? school [---], fortunate both when he lived [and when?] he died. He was ? son [of---]; he lived 50 years.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 114, whence IRT, 2009, 114, whence EDH 059100; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XI.14)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 828 Leica)