WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0669. Funerary inscription

Description: panel (w: 0.53 x h: 0.44 x d: 0.14) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.33 x h: 0.15).
Letters: Rustic capitals: line 1, 0.04 ; line 2, 0.055 ; line 3. 0.03.

Date: Second to third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum

Interpretive

D(is) m(anibus)
Aurelius Eros
filius patri sanctissimo p(osuit)

Diplomatic

DM
AURELIUSEROS
FILIUSPATRISANCTISSIMOP

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the gods below. Aurelius Eros, his son, set (scil. this) up for a most dutiful father.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 669, whence IRT, 2009, 669, whence EDH 059521; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XV.12)