Description: Part of the left-hand side of a marble
sarcophagus front
(w:
0.64 x h:
0.60),
inscribed within a moulded tabella ansata
(die, surviving width w:
0.18 x h:
0.205),
which is flanked (L) by a winged putto,
cloaked and supporting a continuous garland of pomegranates and bay.
Text: Inscribed within a moulded tabella ansata
(die, surviving width w:
0.18 x h:
0.205)
Letters: Capitals, with some Rustic forms line 1, 0.06; Iline 2-3, 0.035.
Date: First-third centuries CE
Findspot:
Sabratha: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Sabratha Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To the gods below [---] ? Statius [---] Rufus [---] (cases unknown)
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 166, whence IRT, 2009, 166, whence EDH 059142; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 148)