Description:
Marble
Tomb-relief
(w:
0.72 x h:
0.84 x d:
0.28);
between two pilasters,
half-length figures of a man and woman in high relief;
below, a rectangular projection which is inscribed within a tabella
ansata.
Text: Inscribed within a tabella ansata (die,
w:
0.37 x h:
0.27).
The last line is cut below the die.
Letters: Irregular capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.045-0.03.
Date: Second to third century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Wadi Lebdah
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To the gods below. Atilia Marith lived for thirty years, three months and twenty-five days. Atilius Corinthus Aurellianus had (scil. this) made for his most moral and faithful wife.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 668, whence IRT, 2009, 668, whence EDH 059520; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 76 Leica)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XII.26)